What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
BIZ STONEWe 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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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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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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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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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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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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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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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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