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Twitter co- founder, Evan Williams, discusses the ins and unexpected outs of Twitter… In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool  Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Evan reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.

We are drowned in paperwork.  Overwhelmed with To Do Lists.  Loaded with obligations.  But underneath all the requests, emails, data and urgency, there is always The One Thing.  It’s that single thing we could do today to transform our situation, our business and even our life.

I’ll never forget having a meeting with the prominent agent to celebrities, Harry M. Miller, years ago. On his notice board he had a sign with just three words of advice. ‘Prune The Tree.’ I was intrigued, as Harry lived in an apartment 30 stories above street level, with not a tree around. “Oh that’s my philosophy of life,” he remarked, as I questioned him about it.

Here is a transcript of an interview Siimon had with Jack Delosa. They talked about business marketing, money and why people fail.

“What are the reasons people fail?”

Most people think that top entrepreneurs are obsessed by money.  While it’s certainly up there on their list of priorities, I don’t think it’s the lead driver for many of them.  A recent book by British economist John Kay, entitled ‘Obliquity. Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly’ shows that many of the best performing businesses were built by people who didn’t pursue wealth as their holy grail.