Creativity is a renewable resource.
BIZ STONEEven though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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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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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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