Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.

I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.