Friday, August 22, 2014

Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey About Raising Your Game


In this CNN Money interview with Twitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, he gives us a good reminder why we should continue keep on working, even though the results might indicate otherwise:


"I'm still a punk," Dorsey insists. "What was amazing to me about the punk scene, which is why I got into it, is because there was this confidence of 'I'm not going to go off, be shy about learning how to be a musician.'"


The St. Louis native used to play music on the streets every so often. He says he'd like to get back to it.


Dorsey, a serial entrepreneur, cites similarities between punk music and emerging technology.


His example: a band could go from being awful their first time on stage to becoming superstars like The Ramones in a short period of time. Dorsey says the same thing can happen with coders.


"People would write code and it was terrible, and they would write it again and it was terrible, and a year from then it was Linux, and now it's running the majority of every system out there today."


In the same interview, we get to know a bit more about his morning routine:


How does he deal with the pressure? Dorsey begins his day with a five mile walk to work. He leaves at 7 am, and it takes him an hour and a half to get to the office. In that time, Dorsey ditches email and texts. He listens to music and audio books and tries to take a new route every day so he can find inspiration on the streets of San Francisco. Each day, he tries to deviate from routine.


How does he deal with the pressure? Dorsey begins his day with a five mile walk to work. He leaves at 7 am, and it takes him an hour and a half to get to the office. In that time, Dorsey ditches email and texts. He listens to music and audio books and tries to take a new route every day so he can find inspiration on the streets of San Francisco. Each day, he tries to deviate from routine.


Featured image: Jack Dorsey art by Work By Knight.

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