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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
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
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 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
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
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
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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Asking Different Networking Thinking Update
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Brave Chance People Regimes Stars Take
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
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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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Interesting Pedestal Way

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