Prachi Adesara

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[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

Pipe Dream receives Jury's Choice! 🏆

This is an incredible win, not just for us, but more so for the people whose work and stories have inspired this film.

Thank you @PaniHaq @SitaramShelar for everything! ✊🏽

Thank you @CCFGoa and @AvijitMukul for your guidance and trust! ❤️

[Djuney @juneymb]

Two of the five dard e disco cities are now under the caliphate

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

#ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners
#UmarKhalid1400DaysInJail

[Free Umar Khalid @FreeUmarKhalid1]

A heartfelt message to Umar Khalid from his sister and nieces as he spends his 1400th day in prison. #UmarKhalid1400DaysInJail #ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners

[k @krownnist]

bumble added “intimacy without commitment” to the list of what people are looking for. im so jealous of everyone who found love before the internet because this is pure hell

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

Emerging from my twitter grave to share these photos. My nani and the gorgeous, gorgeous light at home.

[Maanvi @Maanvi2501]

Not the Election Commission saying "decline to comment," like it's being asked about its relationship status with a "good friend" after being spotted by the paparazzi outside a Bandra cafe.

Sir, you're a constitutional body. With a mandate to conduct free and fair elections.

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

@sahar_tartak Imagine returning to your home after trying to find food to find that your parents, siblings, spouse and children have been murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces. That's happening in Gaza. Fool.

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

@sahar_tartak Ma'am are you trying to be deliberately ignorant of the war crimes your state is committing or are you just incredibly daft?

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

@sahar_tartak Boo fucking hoo. Your state has murdered generations of the original inhabitants whose home you stole. That doesn't make you uncomfortable?

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

the category is idiot war criminals

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Today, I met with Prime Minister @RishiSunak and discussed our support for Israel’s right to defend itself and the urgent need to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza. Together we are committed to helping civilians in need.

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

A friend's mum has recently been diagnosed with stage 3 gall bladder cancer. This is an urgent appeal for funds for her treatment. Open to any other ideas to raise funds. Here's the link -
https://t.co/DUz4UPM8pz

[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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[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

In other news a parent of one of my brother's students has used AI to grade her child's assignment and has been arguing with him to change her overall score. 🤣🤌🏽

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

Home, May 2023.

[Rohini Singh @rohini9247]

Testing the power of the internet to unite these 2 photos to their rightful owner. They landed up at our office with a bunch of book donations. I dont have the heart to throw them away cz 1 of the photos has a cute msg at the back. If u recognise anyone in the photos pls DM me!

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

PS: Don't miss Tanuja ji and Talat Aziz ji (left of frame)

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to the magic maker @mehtahansal ✨🎬

One of my favourite BTS moments from Baai, #ModernLoveIndia.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

THE MATRIX was released 24 years ago today. One of the most iconic and groundbreaking movies of its generation, the making of story is a fascinating one.

A THREAD
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[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

I thoroughly enjoy such posters and "mistakes", they're a sign that most Indians know more than one language and also that effective communication can happen no matter what your grasp over a language is. @duolingo shaming is not a good marketing strategy

[Jeet @6482912t]

. @duolingo is running #SwachhBhashaAbhiyan mocking small businesses for English errors. English fluency is a privilege. People are regularly bullied, denied opportunities, looked down upon by mostly uc urban elites who decide what is “pure” language & destroy dialects.

[Prachi Adesara @darkmatters21]

This tweet does a better job at answering the "why are we here" and "what is life" questions than most philosophers, but then again I have not read most philosophers

[australian womens cricket with very little context @awcwvlc]

UPWarriorz:
The only team to get beaten by RCB
The only team to beat Mumbai Indians

#WPL2023