Charles Leadbeater: The Era of Open Innovation

Alain de Botton: A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success

Compare Alain de Botton's view of success with the ideas you have read about in Outliers.

Malcolm Gladwell: The Strange Tale of the Norden Bombshell

Will Facebook Own You?

Check out this article about Facebook's new strategy to embed all of your "intrawebs" on Facebook rather than just including links that send you elsewhere?

The article concludes with this statement:
This is the true risk of entrusting your entire online (and by association, offline) persona with a single entity — and yes, you should be worried that, as it stands, there is nothing in the way of either Google or Facebook becoming a cyberpunkish Megacorporation.

Are you worried?