I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
BIZ STONEEven though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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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 thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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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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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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