Markus Estrada

Website and Automotive Industry Professional. Designer/Developer. Member of the Advisory Board at #UCI #ContinuingEducation #webdevelopment 💻

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Wealth isn’t determined by your ‘Flex’. Your relationships, health and overall well being determines your wealth. Consider this on your next scroll and work toward optimizing friendships and your health to maintain an overall wealth mindset.

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@Max33Verstappen @Max33Verstappen and @redbullracing what a great race! Aside from that team fumble with the used tires at the end, Max dominated the pace! The upgrades were well needed! We’ll get it back in a week! ✊let’s go!!!

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Bootcampers! Join me on June 26th at the @edXOnline Career Expo! I'll be sharing insights on self-branding, resume building with AI, and other essential tips to enhance your job search. Don't miss the chance to visit my virtual booth and level up your career game! See you there!

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@Max33Verstappen Yes you did man!!! 💪 Let’s get in front of those upgrades McLaren made for Monaco.

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New to responsive design? Elevate your skills with my latest blog post, packed with easy-to-follow tips on grid design and responsive basics.

Plus, grab my FREE responsive grid design template to get started!
#ResponsiveDesign #WebDesign #UXDesign https://t.co/pkJw0JzgLI

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@Casey Speaking of… I remember Marlboro being in almost every magazine ad, on race cars, busses growing up. Can’t remember the last time I’ve seen one. Glad you kicked the habit also 🤙

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Website Owners: What is the biggest pain point you encounter with your current website?

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Opinion: SASS is overrated! Writing clean, minimal and strategic code does not require an additional library to add a potential point of failure and weight to your web project.

Instead try condensing your CSS to one line per variable and create a template for redundant tasks.

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Switching priorities from my todo list to my calendar to manage tasks has been a game changer especially in understanding time as it relates to a task.

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It's really going to come down to which streaming service has the best show at the moment IMO. I have no problem pausing a service if their content is boring - especially if they're gonna charge premium for it - https://t.co/9hZjtTtluP

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Options:

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By using a background image and overlaying text via HTML/CSS you can recreate simple to moderately complex layouts…

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For a more in-depth look at a Case Study where this was used specifically for translation purposes consider the super-short read up on my blog - https://t.co/VCxTO1cDKS…

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@BenjaminDEKR People are obviously bored with the current platforms. Difference here is this one comes from an already proven company that can deliver and has done so time over time.

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@aakashgupta AI seems to be falling very nicely into every facet where it can be a really helpful tool for designers and developers to expand on ideas and eliminate mundane tasks to speed up production🤔

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@redbullracing @redbull @redbullAustria Let’s rock!!!! 🏎️

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In 1971, Phil Knight was teaching accounting at Portland State University.

One day, he overheard a graphic design student say that she couldn’t afford to take a painting class.

Knight paid her $35 to design a logo for his start-up shoe company.

When he saw the design, he said,

“I don't know if I like it, but maybe it will grow on me.”

Knight didn’t have time to fuss over the logo. "We had a deadline," he explains. He had signed a contract with a factory to produce 3,000 pairs of Nike's first shoe. "Production was starting on the shoe that Friday."

Before then, they needed a logo.

“You don’t like it?” Knight’s chief operating officer asked of the student’s design.

“I don’t love it,” Knight said, “but we’re out of time. It’ll have to do.”

Takeaway 1:

It's said that if not for constraints and deadlines, nothing would get made.

George Lucas, for instance, worked on drafts of the first Star Wars for years. "I never arrived at a degree of satisfaction where I thought the screenplay was perfect," he said.

But then he struck a deal with a movie executive from United Artists—"At that point, it became an obligation," Lucas said.

"If I hadn't been forced to shoot the film, I would doubtless still be rewriting it now."

Takeaway 2:

At Nike's IPO in 1980, Phil Knight gave the student who designed the Swoosh 500 shares.

She never sold.

Since the IPO, there have been 7 stock splits. So those 500 shares have become 64,000 shares. At the time of this writing, Nike is at $110/share.

$110/share x 64,000 shares = $7,040,000.

It makes me think of something Robert Greene once told me:

“Above all else, focus on acquiring knowledge and skills. Knowledge and skills are like gold—a currency you will transform into something more valuable than you can imagine."

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