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

It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.

Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.

My mom cares that I tweeted a picture of my breakfast. She's knows I'm eating and I'm safe.

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.