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Philadelphia.

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Bears vs Vikings

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Mahomes every play

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Twitter account @DidTheSixersWin retires after a decade of documenting the team’s fortunes https://t.co/h49fkvxK3H

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In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest.

Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, & Reebok were all selling more shoes.

So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest.

The winner was

A corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield.

"Two days after the competition," he said, "I wasn't even asked—I was told that I was now a footwear designer for Nike."

As he got to work on his first official shoe design, he thought about a building he had studied in architecture school: The Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The Centre Pompidou is an inside-out building, meaning that the structural, mechanical, and circulation systems are all exposed.

“That building,” Tinker said, “was describing what it was to the people of Paris. And I thought, ‘Well why not do that with a shoe? Let’s cut a hole in the side and show what’s in the shoe.’”

So Tinker designed an inside-out shoe:

The Air Max 1.

The Air Max 1 was a massive success, and it steered Nike's design direction from then on.

"To this day," Tinker says, "Phil Knight says I saved Nike."

Takeaway 1:

Had he not studied that building in Paris, Tinker says, he couldn’t have created the Air Max.

Creativity, he says, is a function of the “library in your head."

“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.”

Takeaway 2:

Tinker Hatfield went to architecture school and then he was a corporate architect for 4.5 years. Then, literally overnight, he became one of the best shoe designers in the world.

This makes me think of a counter-intuitive discovery made by psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904.

Before Spearman, the natural assumption was that the more you specialize in one thing, the worse you’ll be at other things.

Instead, Spearman discovered "the positive manifold" phenomenon.

He found that different abilities tend to be positively correlated. That the expertise gained through specialization is transferrable. That the cognitive and creative abilities cultivated as an architect could positively correlate with being a shoe designer.

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"Creativity is a function of the previous work you put in."  — Robert Greene

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“There've only been a handful of days since the beginning of time on which the direction the world was taking has been changed in one 24-hour period by an act of man,” Andy Rooney said about the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW

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45 points

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BREAKING: Jon Stewart just completely destroyed Republican State Senator Nathan Dahm of Oklahoma on gun reform in America. Each and every point that Dahm tried to address was completely debunked by Stewart. Stewart made Dahm look as foolish as he and his republican colleagues really are.

My favorite quote was: “In every other place your life you want to bring order, but guns are the outlier for you.”

Let all your republican friends see this video! https://t.co/qOlU187LHx

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#FlyEaglesFly

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"JALEN HURTS IS A DAWG" ~Nick Sirianni

HELL YEAH COACH #PMSLive

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Former January 6 committee senior staffer Denver Riggleman says Mark Meadows’ text trove revealed a “roadmap to an attempted coup” https://t.co/pQuFRjnbI2

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How many sacks @Eagles ?

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Jalen Hurts at halftime:

🦅 279 passing yards
🦅 3 TDs
🦅 137.7 passer rating

[David Gelles @dgelles]

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵
https://t.co/22q91WK2Hz

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Is Tim Robinson the only #emmy winner who can tre flip?

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Phillies blow a 7-0 lead to Arizona

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Stewart: If this is America first, then America is fucked

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I don't know who the guy is but I like him.

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The Fightins are 14-2 in June.