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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
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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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious Writing
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Brave Chance People Regimes Stars Take
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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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
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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Interesting Pedestal Way
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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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
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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College Environment Needs Psychological
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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Bird Ideas Moving
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness

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