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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

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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
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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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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 realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
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
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
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
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

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