Are You An Information Junkie?
Well Are You An Information Junkie?
By Julio R. Mattos
To be perfectly honest with you, I really am an information junkie, well hope that doesn’t cross you the wrong way.
I love reading and meeting interesting people with new and fresh ideas, but most of the time they are old ideas transformed from old to knew again, which is sometimes a really good thing. The reason why I say good well take a good look at all of this fuss over the old scary movies, Chainsaw Massacre and all of the Jason Movies how many times does this guy come back to life or don’t die but disappear, Michael Meyers, etc.
You know why most of these movies are so inviting for the film and movie industry, simply put, they work and why start from the beginning if the system that has been working and will continue to work with little add on’s here and there. They make Millions of dollars each time those movies are made and they are given awards, big royalty payout, bonuses, for what you may ask?
The System they developed, made improvements on, continues to work on day to day basis still bringing in millions and millions of dollars in sales each and every month, not year but months. Now a lot of the old school directors, video experts, they have turned to the internet and social media to help drive business up and to help spread the word about new releases and we all are movies buffs to a certain to degree no matter what you may claim to say.
My little brother, I remember when Blade came out with Westley Snipes, do you my brother went to watch that movie around 13 times, I watch all of those Blade movies beside my brother, but not 13 times. I remember because we both were collecting a lot of information about start up business and mail order companies and pretty much everything we could find about starting and running a business.
I remember us sitting down, looking through all of the stuff, me and my brother would send our money out and since my little brother was working with me and we both were going school, but I made him go full time and work on the business part time. We wasted a lot of time and learned a lot from the experience and also spent a lot of money, I am not kidding we spend a lot of cash.
Anyways long story short if we can, my little brother was a game freak, he would play in some of the competitions, he was good at playing games, he won a few of championships that Sony, Game-boy and other video game experts would come out to the bay area to put on. He was so into the games, that it took over most of his time and then in 2001 I remember this year oh so well, he was also playing around with hacking codes not good for me, not good for our business and not good for company computers.
He considered himself trying to make our computers more faster and better equipped that he deleted some programs, that at the time I had know clew you could freak-in delete, do you know that it cost us so much money, time and also potential business partnerships because at the time we did not back up our work. Everything was on those 2 computers and I has know idea was in store for me once I came home, we lost so much and I personally lost a whole lot of time, money, business contracts, even my vendors was wondering what was going on and how come they haven’t heard from me and have not received orders.
I took the laptops to CompUsa, of course the company folded last year in 2008, but the point is this was 2001 and 2 years into our business we were doing pretty good and has just received 2-3 major contracts at the time and it was about to be a very awesome turnout, but guess what, I took the laptops to see if we could get the computers fixed or at least recover the data.
Do you think that we were able to retrieve the data? No, unfortunately, the technicians had know clew how my brother was able to delete some of the toshiba systems, considering that a lot of it was protected by Microsoft, wow, it was music to my ears and I had a headache the size of San Francisco. If it wasn’t my brother, I would beaten the crap out of him, but I calmed down after yelling at him until I lost my voice and went to my car and when for a nice long ride. Believe it or not, I do mean long ride I found myself all the way down in Los Angeles, not for sightseeing and not for anything more but collecting my thoughts, that’s an 8 hour drive from San Francisco, if you are not aware of the distance.
But along time later, it has been a great experience nonetheless, we have had success and had some failures, but more success then failures, also I learned a whole about business partnerships as well, not including my brother, I can barely hold grudges against family, my mother’s raising us up that way.
I have had a lot more success in my life then I have had failures, but not only that, failure is merely a different way of testing out different systems and plans. What I found out by gathering information and becoming bombarded with so much information, it was apparent, I became overwhelmed and took me a moment to collect my thoughts.
Ah, when you sit down to write, really you loose track of time.
By Julio R. Mattos