Umair Haque at Harvard Business on Obama’s lessons for innovators:

Change the game? That’s 20th century thinking at its finest – and narrowest. The 21st century is about changing the world. What does “yes we can” really mean? Obama’s goal wasn’t simply to win an election, garner votes, or run a great campaign. It was larger and more urgent: to change the world.

Bigness of purpose is what separates 20th century and 21st century organizations: yesterday, we built huge corporations to do tiny, incremental things – tomorrow, we must build small organizations that can do tremendously massive things.

And to do that, you must strive to change the world radically for the better – and always believe that yes, you can. You must maximize, stretch, and utterly explode your sense of purpose.

I’d like to think I’ve always believed this. Every once in a while I need a small reminder to continue with this idea in mind. What good is something if there’s no purpose behind your chase? Where will passion come from?

Charlie O’Donnell to Joshua Schachter on what to work on next:

Build something that allows you to do less. Take whatever you put the most time/effort into and build something to eliminate it.

Chris Brogan on why Twitter is winning:

One way to win in software is to make your application fertile for building upon. [...] Give people tools to build an ecosystem around it.

Eric Schmidt at Fortune’s Brainstorm conference:

If you look at the history of software development, all the interesting things that have been built have been built by two people. It is the nature of software technology.