Comments on: It Doesn’t Matter If You Win or Lose

By: Sunny Jamiel

Sunny Jamiel — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:09:44 +0000

Jarkko, It's my first time here on your blog. The question you put at the end is very valid. "That’s why we need to ask ourselves a new question: If your company went down today, what would be the legacy it left behind?" My reasoning is, that this latest financial crisis, although did not leave us an amazing railroad network or a highly developed Internet infrastructure, it actually left us something more valuable than that. And what it left us with (not exactly left yet, though) is a better awareness of the fact that we need to manage our financial systems in a much better way. It threw in our faces some really important questions, that I hope, once we answer, will make us wiser as human beings sharing this planet Earth. Good post. Short and to the point. Stumbled! Sunny Jamiels last blog post..Motivational Wallpaper – To See a World in a Grain of Sand

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By: smashill

smashill — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:32:26 +0000

Nice post, the whole economy is just like high and low tide, we can only hope that this whole bullshit does not start too many wars when the governments start printing more money due to them not being able to pay the bills. Good old recession will come sooner or later.

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:58:32 +0000

@Sean: Hey that’s a great thought! Blogging is different from just any other business in that every one of us (well, most at least) are helping others so that even if we give up at some point, our thoughts still carry on to new blogs…

Also, blogging is cool in the sense that you can always let it rest for a while, and then pick it up when you have something to say.

@sess: I just received Friedman’s book in mail a few days ago. Haven’t read it yet, but I’ll get back to the message thing once I have.

By: sess

sess — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:59:41 +0000

So What was Friedmans message??! There was none

By: Sean Hodge

Sean Hodge — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:07:09 +0000

Good thoughts. I think that to a certain extent we're participating in a culture of helping on the web. Blog business models involve giving away an enormous amount of information - much of which was not free in the past. If one of these blogs fail, the rest go on. Sean Hodges last blog post..2009 Plans for AiBURN

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By: Mikko

Mikko — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:03:15 +0000

Well, I think the last bubble left us a collection of very sophisticated hedge funds and not so sophisticated but equally profit-creating Ponzi schemes :-) Mikkos last blog post..Writing niche blog articles in advance

By: Narendra

Narendra — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:03:21 +0000

“If your company went down today, what would be the legacy it left behind?”

Interesting question. Initially, I thought of many good things that I can mention as the legacy of my company (if it goes bust). But then I realised that maybe I am thinking of these good things because I can afford the luxury of imagining without myself actually being negatively affected (well, not that I am not at all affected, but at least I have my job…). Generally, I have observed that there is some time before company goes bust. That time is quite painful and can give one very bitter memories. Now, I am definitely not a type of person who can stand tall & easily forget unprofessional (and probably unethical) behaviour, which I think almost always happens when the company is about to go bust.

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