In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start.
Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
I spend 90% of my time with people who don't report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I'm walking around the office all the time. You don't have to schedule serendipity. It just happens.
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.