Constraint inspires creativity
BIZ STONEA personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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