The quoted text below was copied directly from BlogMaverick.com with the permission of Mark Cuban. You only have to be right once – In basketball you have to shoot 50pct. If you make an extra 10 shots per hundred, you are an All-Star. In baseball you have to get a hit 30 pct of the [...]
Apparently the last time I set up MySql I did it using some cheap (like crappy) installer. It didn’t include any of the extension dlls. I’ve now decided it is much less of a headache to simply download the zip file and do the configuration myself. A link to the instructions I followed. Worked great [...]
I recently set up a issue tracking software called Eventum. Boy was it FUN! The 3 minute install took me about 4 1/2 hours. I had to upgrade mySql (actually I chose to when I started to get an unexpected error during the install – turns out my install was missing some dlls). That upgrade [...]
The quoted text below was copied directly from BlogMaverick.com with the permission of Mark Cuban. The source link is http://blogmaverick.com/2004/05/25/success-and-motivation-p4/. You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out [...]
Late last week the Tennessee legislature passed a law that will allow those with a carry permit to bring their weapons into restaurants that serve alcohol. Previously, this was against the law. There are some caveats though. The person carrying is not allowed to drink any alcohol at all (that is definitely reasonable). As always, [...]
The quoted text below was copied directly from BlogMaverick.com with the permission of Mark Cuban. This isn’t quite a continuation of part 1, but I happened to stumble across an interview I did last year for Young Money Magazine that covers a lot of the things that I probably would have included in part 2. [...]
The quoted text below was copied directly from BlogMaverick.com with the permission of Mark Cuban. The source link is http://blogmaverick.com/2004/04/25/success-and-motivation-part-2/. So my career in Dallas begins. I’m a software salesperson with Your Business Software in Dallas. $18k per year. The first retail software store in Dallas. I have to sweep the floor and be there [...]
The quoted text below was copied directly from BlogMaverick.com with the permission of Mark Cuban. The source link is http://blogmaverick.com/2004/04/23/success-and-motivation-part-1/. I did it too. I drove by big houses and would wonder who lived there. What did they do for a living? How did they make their money? Someday, I would tell myself, I would [...]
Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a blog called blogmaverick. He tends to post business related content with an “eye to the future” kind of feel. I like reading them and you can tell he is a sharp guy as you read. My favorite posts, by far, were a recent set focused [...]
According to this article (http://www.physorg.com/news158928941.html) quantum theory may explain some cases of “wishful thinking”. (PhysOrg.com) — Humans don’t always make the most rational decisions. As studies have shown, even when logic and reasoning point in one direction, sometimes we chose the opposite route, motivated by personal bias or simply “wishful thinking.” This paradoxical human behavior [...]