I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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Constraint inspires creativity
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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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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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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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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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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A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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