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" Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live. "
Harper Reed
Sharing
Think
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" My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads. "
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" I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing. "
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" I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us. "
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" One of the things that I used to make sure I'd do was to always make sure I'd have dinner at home because I needed that disconnect from work. Even when it was crazy, I'd go home at, like, 10 o'clock and have dinner. That way, I had time where I could decompress a little bit and then go back in. "
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" The information diet of a senior campaign staffer is insane. We were all addicted to our chosen email delivery devices and were aggressively tethered to them. It made sense and wasn't an issue during the campaign because of the importance of the situation. However, once the campaign was over and we were successful, the information flow dried up. "
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" When I called people and said, 'Hey! Do you want to work for the president?' they usually said yes. I had 2 people say no. One person said no because they were a Republican; one person said no because they're a Libertarian. "
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" There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most. "
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" I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders. "
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" In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it. "
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" I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books. "
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" If you want to go and build a company that exists in Silicon Valley, then you should go and do it there. But if you want to build a company that is Australian, that represents your culture and your being, then you should do it in Sydney. "
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" Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd capital. "
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" Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is now the oxygen of our Internet world. "
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" Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything. "
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" Google Photos is great. I enjoy using it to curate my photo collection online. The integration on iOS to Apple Photos is a bit too much voodoo for me. "
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" Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election. "
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" The thing about Snapchat is it is ephemeral, so you don't - it's not like a video that you post to YouTube and then everyone can see it. It's this video that you get to share this kind of very intimate experience again, this very kind of genuine experience with another person in a more one-on-one sort of way. And I really appreciate that. "
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" Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help. "
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" The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet. "
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