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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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 was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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
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
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
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
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
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
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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