Embrace your constraints.
BIZ STONEI knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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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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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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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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