As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.

This issue:

• The Disruption Talk [A VC]
  Fred Wilson (a VC in New York) partly crowd-sourced a presentation on disruption, presented at Google, recorded and stashed on YouTube.
• In-N-Out Burger’s six secrets for out-and-out success [Daily Finance]
  On the heels of mounting cynicism generated by Wall Street bailouts and the perception that corporate leaders are gaming the system to make a profit, at least one American company is proving that businesses can survive and even thrive while sticking to traditional values.
• Farmers Didn’t Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming. [Ben Casnocha]
  There’s a cliche in innovation / entrepreneurship which says, “Scratch your own itch.” That is, solve problems that you know really well. This is not always so.
• Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators [Harvard Business]
  Barak Obama’s presidential bid succeeded was a research lab for using social media in a political campaign. It differs from yesterday’s political organizations as much as Google and Threadless differ from yesterday’s corporations: all are a tiny handful of truly new, 21st century institutions in the world today. Here are the seven rules his campaign lived by.