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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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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Distribute Mean Say Sound
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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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
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
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
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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People Running Technology
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position

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