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Here's our quick read on the top tweets, news, and buzz circulating in the field of social entrepreneurship and changemaking this week. What's got you talking?

• Our new book, Work on Purpose, is officially here! Want a career with meaning? This guide, with real-life journeys of five of our Fellows, will help you along your own path. But to get you going, GOOD Magazine wants you to design your dream job and tell us about in 150 words or less. We'll publish a selection of the most interesting, creative, and passionate responses. The number 1 winner will get a career coaching session with our own Lara Galinsky. Don’t miss out. http://ht.ly/4FXWo

• The science of getting people to do good. Turns out the most generous, trusting and helpful individuals are those with a lower-socioeconomic status. That doesn’t mean everyone isn’t compassionate, but perhaps that those with less are willing to share more because they know firsthand why the support is so important. A fascinating look at four inter-related studies: http://ht.ly/4FY4O

• The worst failure of all is wasting a failure. We all know that we should be learning from our failures. But if we want to do so effectively, we must do it with intention. This means objective post-mortems, storing data on your failures, or even celebrating a whole day of failures! http://ht.ly/4FYio

• Vinod Khosla, perhaps the most active venture capitalist in spurring radical innovation in clean technology, is always in search of that elusive black swan—an idea that has a 90% chance of failure, but if it succeeds, it could be game-changing. 2010 Fellow Jason Aramburu may just have that idea. A look at clean-tech and why investment in the sector has gone from $52 billion to $243 billion in just six years. http://ht.ly/4DfW5

• Leadership isn’t just about being an entrepreneur. Lara shares the history of Echoing Green and how everyone can work on purpose: http://ht.ly/4FZLn

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