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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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Network Social Thinking
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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Impact Person Sales Years
You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Break Couple Days Hyperconnected
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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Creativity Running Use
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
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
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
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
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
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
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
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
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy

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