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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

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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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Impact Person Sales Years
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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
I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped
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
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Ideas Mean Writing
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
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
You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Break Couple Days Hyperconnected
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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

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