Dave Morin

I’ve been off the blogging grid for some time now. It’s been an absolutely amazing period of my life since my last blog, filled with incredible people and incredible growth. I’m humbled by the successes I’ve had an opportunity to be a part of over the last year. And, I’m hoping to put the proverbial pen to paper over the coming months to get back to putting my thoughts and ideas out into the blogosphere.

Last week I spoke on a panel at O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 Expo called Comparing Social Platforms, with some great people like David Recordon, Jessica Alter, Allen Hurff, and Patrick Chanezon. If the media from the session becomes available I’ll be sure to post it here.

I then had the opportunity to attend the keynote session, where Tim O’Reilly gave an inspiring speech on the power of collective intelligence and the need to go after “big, hard problems,” Max Levchin delivered compelling advice for entreprenuers, and Clay Sharky gave an absolutely genius talk on what he calls the “cognitive surplus.” His talk was so good, in fact, that I wanted to post it here. Trust me, its worth your time:

Can you imagine what the future of the internet will look like if we can move the needle even 10% from where we are today?