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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Communication Moving Real
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
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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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
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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Air iPhone Macbook Scratched Two
You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Interesting Pedestal Way
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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Network Social Thinking
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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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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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Asking Different Networking Thinking Update
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People

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