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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious Writing
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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
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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Creativity Design Perfect
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
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
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
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
Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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Connection Experience Greatest Work
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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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
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
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
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
So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
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
Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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Like Refreshing Running You
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting

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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