Divya

Vivi con passione.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Jerry Seinfeld just captured the paradox of artificial intelligence in a single, perfectly timed observation.

[Sam Altman @sama]

no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want

[AllSides @AllSidesNow]

❗️Media bias can manipulate and mislead. The AllSides Media Bias Chart makes news bias transparent.

Version 10 of the chart features 6 new sources and strengthened ratings for 10 outlets ahead of the 2024 election. 👇🧵

[Met Office @metoffice]

The aurora has been visible across many parts of the UK this evening

Here are some photos taken by our meteorologists situated across the country

[Divya @divyashri]

@amortowles Hello! Any news on your interviews in London? Thank you! Looking forward to reading the short stories.

[Divya @divyashri]

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
― T.S. Eliot

via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter (https://t.co/7ZesdeHUkp) from @tferriss

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:

Here are the images of
Lunar far side area
captured by the
Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera (LHDAC).

This camera that assists in locating a safe landing area -- without boulders or deep trenches -- during the descent is developed by ISRO at SAC https://t.co/cr5Kp0ssOW

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Zain Khalid @zaintkhalid]

What a night! This novel owes such a debt to @peterblackstock, @kentdwolf, and the incredible team @groveatlantic, especially @debseager and @emilyatterbury. Thank you all!

[Divya @divyashri]

@nypl @zaintkhalid Onwards and upwards!!! 👏🏼

[NY Public Library @nypl]

The New York Public Library is proud to announce that @zaintkhalid has won the 23rd annual Young Lions Fiction Award for his book 'Brother Alive.' https://t.co/bvT3sKD58c

[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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[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

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Tom Hanks tells the park bench story here (https://t.co/iFtkc3w6fY)

and here (https://t.co/i97FlsaBQm)

And here is the Keats/Negative Capability letter (https://t.co/X43YlGHmeM)

[Divya @divyashri]

@blackwellbooks @TheKitschies @picadorbooks @AtlanticBooks @wnbooks @penguinrandom Wow go @zaintkhalid

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. A THREAD

In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in
@Variety

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[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

How photography changed art:

(will AI do the same to writing?)

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Not that it matters, of course, because knowing it doesn't change anything. Still, it does remind us how pervasively the past shapes the present.

And it's only an innocuous example... in how many more powerful ways does history, even invisibly, shape the present day?

[D-Coder @Damn_coder]

GPT-4 launched just 12 hours ago and people are already doing mind-blowing things with it.

Check out these examples in this thread:

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting

[Divya @divyashri]

https://t.co/m5y7PfFR95

[Divya @divyashri]

What a legend!

https://t.co/egk3qcrGQN