Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
BIZ STONEEven though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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