Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while … - Jack Dorsey

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At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

Jack Dorsey

Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there's a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you're writing or editing and get in the mode of editing.

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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.

Brother, Complaint, Point, Stupid, Useless, Useless Things

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.

Allows, Business, Office, People, Walking

I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

Impress, Jeans, Life, Sit, Way

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.

Augmented, Cities, Facebook, Long, Reality

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.

Cities, Fascination, Right, Right Now, Work