Constraint inspires creativity
BIZ STONEI think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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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 can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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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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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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