Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
BIZ STONELesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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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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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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