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.
BIZ STONEThe 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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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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People first. Technology second.
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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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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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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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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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