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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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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
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
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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Country Giving Technology
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
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
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
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 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
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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Distribute Mean Say Sound
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
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
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
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 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
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 Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic

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