Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
BIZ STONEThe 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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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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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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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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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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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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 can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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