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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.

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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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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
I 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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Ideas Mean Thinking
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
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
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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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
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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Ideas Mean Writing
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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Impact Person Sales Years
We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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People Running Technology
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
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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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open

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