Charlene

Sustainable nerd.

[Charlene @Charkitect]

@Grimezsz We have an extra room at our Airbnb. In Tarzana though near the hills..

[Charlene @Charkitect]

@DEADLINE It doesn’t make it acceptable, but I think part of the problem is she’s a little drunk. I know I’ve had my social hiccups while intoxicated

[Charlene @Charkitect]

“My world is filled with rainbow” 🌈
-a child in the wild

[Charlene @Charkitect]

Sometimes me isn’t the same. Inconsistency would also be me

[Charlene @Charkitect]

Fuck you hiccups

[Charlene @Charkitect]

And the winner is…. Architect

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

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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[Charlene @Charkitect]

Misophonia

[Charlene @Charkitect]

@mishadavinci There of course are other elements, like writing (5%), which we are excited about for help too.

The thing about large buildings is the extent of coordination and expertise is complex. I would actually say the biggest thing an architect does is complex problem solving.

[Charlene @Charkitect]

@mishadavinci If AI can help architects with image generation. Great! Always looking for ways to make it visual & beautiful for less. A lot of firms actually contract out their renderings to renderers out of house. Renderers will be hurt a lot by image generation. Graphics are ~10% of the job.

[Charlene @Charkitect]

Atomospheric River of Life

[Charlene @Charkitect]

Hahaha so true

[𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗬 𝗛𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗘𝗦 @TommySledge]

ON THIS DAY in 1984 — ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ opened in theaters

FACT: According to IMDb, the film has a 7.9 rating … out of 11

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

A cat was saved from under the rubble in Turkey. It now refuses to leave its rescuer's side.

[Charlene @Charkitect]

So ready. 🔥

[Ryan Mendez @RyanMendez]

Announcing a Yellowcard tour is something we never thought we would get to do again. Much less, a tour with bands of this caliber, made up of such amazing people and good friends. Being given the opportunity to play music together again is truly a gift t… https://t.co/aMiuXaMRQH

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

On Valentine's Day, exactly 33 years ago, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last time to make the first ever Solar System family portrait. 33 years later, look again at the Pale Blue Dot

[read more: https://t.co/mFT1z8Orao]

[Jedha @jedhamusic]

Our first album ‘Midwinter’ releases April 14, 2023. The first single ‘In Full Sunlight’ is out February 17 and is available to pre save now (Link in bio). We are so happy to finally share this music with the world. Thank you for listening.
📸 @RyanMendez
@williamryankey

[Charlene @Charkitect]

There’s a difference between fomo and an extrovert trying to fill their tank

[Charlene @Charkitect]

@RyanMendez @RiotFest Goleta the Goodland

[Charlene @Charkitect]

When you feel the freedom of feeling like a rebel because you are walking away before finishing a task, and yet it’s still 2 in the morning