Constraint inspires creativity
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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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 think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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