1. You really can push the point of fun overload. Either that or I’m getting old.

2. Meeting loads of new people + loads of adult beverages = forgetting lots of names. I really did love you all. It’s not you, it’s me. Honest.

3. When you throw a bunch of geeks in a room talking about all the cool new products we’re all building, the future looks completely rosy. Reality (and my SxSW hangover) tells me the future is really much bleaker than it appears.

4. The real value of social networking takes place offline. The value we bring to each other is best measured offline actually. Case in point . . . South by Southwest!

5. Speaking of offline, life is actually lived there. It’s not about taking the virtual world to its real-life counterpart, it’s the other way around. The digital world is actually more compelling when it’s expressed with real world physics. Get out and do things like this or this.

6. Contribute something. Don’t sit back and be a pundit. Build something and contribute to the conversation that way as opposed to just commenting on what other people are doing.

7. My yearly take-away: Austin is one of my favorite cities in the whole world. Great movie venues, great music, great culture. It’s also a community that supports technology.

8. Twitter is really cool. Yeah, I caught a glimpse of that last year. But connecting in real time is really special.

9. Everyone! Listen to the community! It’s smarter than you can ever hope to be!

10. If you’re going to fail, fail so big that everyone wants to twitter about it.