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.
BIZ STONEYou 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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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 was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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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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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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