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The Good Fail Sales are Through the Roof!

Thanks everyone for the interest and the kind words. Over the last 48 hours we've received a tremendous surge of orders and I am extremely grateful.

You know, it's a lot of work to come back from such a terrible failure. As I've said time and time again, the mistakes I made were the reason Microworkz collapsed but it wasn't just Microworkz: These were life mistakes, errors in direction and errors in critical thinking. The book is not a Microworkz piece, it's an intimate story of an errant sole who rights the ship after much pain to others and to himself.

I opened myself up to the kind of attacks that I received in 1999 because I think the story needed to be told. To some I will always be a criminal (even though I was never convicted of any Microworkz related offense), to some I will be a visionary and well, some of you don't understand why it matters. Read the book, email me, comment here and let's get the dialougue started.

It's about time.

 

TheGoodFail.com is now live!

Check it out, the new site to support the book The Good Fail and a bunch of other stuff! http://www.thegoodfail.com

 

The Good Fail Debuts in Top 10 for Kindle/iPad/iPhone

Wow, amazing.

Hardcover copies of The Good Fail won't hit the stores until the 8th of May but you can download the book now on Amazon.com or via iTunes.

Isn't it time you read the whole story of what happened with Microworkz.com? Get the book

Well, Isn't it time for the whole story?

For the past five or so years I have fielded on average about 100 emails a week on this site. Everything from concerns about me, comments on what an idiot I am and marriage proposals have been filed, responded to and laughed with. The past 12 years there probably hasn't been a day where I didn't think, reminisce or wince at the legacy I created with Microworkz.

Many of you have asked for the whole story, all the details, the total thought process and perhaps the real inside accounting of how everything went down. Two years ago, with the help of some amazing writers and researchers, we begin to document, craft and develop the facts into a single manuscript. That book, now titled "The Good Fail", is now in pre-production and will be in online and offline bookstores, Kindles, iPad's and other devices in April 2012.

The publication of this book, part life story and part entrepeneurs reference guide, is the end of the Microworkz story for me. On April 3rd, when the book is officially released, this site and all the content on this site will cease to exist. Microworkz, both as a company and an idea, will have reached its logical and permanent end.

This is the last post I will write here and it's not without a tear in my eye. Microworkz was a dream that I couldn't make a reality. Microworkz was a nightmare that helped shape who I am today. Microworkz was a movement that helped change the landscape of computing. But, most of all, Microworkz was, I hope, the foundation of a story that will help entrepeneurs and future business leaders recognize and avoid failure.

Goodbye Microworkz.


Richard Keith Latman
Twitter: @icarmagic

The Good Fail: Entrepreneurial Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Microworkz