Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
BIZ STONEI 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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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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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 don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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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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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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