In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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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 is a renewable resource.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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