Jack Travers 🏛️

Founder of Quotake @QuotakeApp 🤳📖 Liverpool Fan 🔴 @LFC

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@endless_frank For those thinking these multi baggers don’t occur. Peter Lynch - One up on Wall Street. 40 cents a share to $40 a share in ~ 9 years 🚀

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@Quikolas17 @AravSrinivas @QuotakeApp Thanks for the feedback! We’re still very early days with the product. So let’s see what happens. Love your idea!

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@AravSrinivas Currently building @QuotakeApp

Think Strava, but for reading instead of fitness. A social experience of reading a book, sharing ideas and having intelectual debates.

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@Quikolas17 @AravSrinivas Currently building this @QuotakeApp

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@hoanhle_ @AravSrinivas Currently building this @QuotakeApp

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@OpreModus @chamath Are there trackers/funds that cover these as groups?

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@AdamSinger @nibby_eth times have changed 😂

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@0xgaut @nibby_eth

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@chamath https://t.co/2GyxqUMqPs

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@WilcoFtbl We don’t move the ball anywhere near as quickly as we do here. One touch football with constant movement.

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@patrick_oshag @FoundersPodcast You should save all of these quotes and highlights into @QuotakeApp! It allows you to capture, store and systemise your favourite quotes and learning points. Fantastic tool 👌

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Kelvin Kiptum set a new world record marathon time today at 2:00:35.

That’s a 4:36/mile pace…for 26.2 miles — and he beat Eliud Kipchoge’s previous record by 34 seconds.

He is only 23 years old!

That’s one of the greatest athletic achievements ever.

[Anything Liverpool @AnythingLFC_]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We found him. We found the Gerrard Regen. 🥹❤️🔴

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@JulianaLung Brilliant insight 👏 where do you capture these quotes for future reference? You should try @QuotakeApp

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@RaphaelleSoffe @Yale Congratulations 👏

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@Anc_Aesthetics What/where is the modern day equivalent? @QuotakeApp

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@thenenja hey Nena 👋 how do you chose which products you write and review @WIRED?

I think you’ll love @QuotakeApp, would love to get some feedback on our app!

[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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@stats_feed Very alarming for the UK 🇬🇧 @QuotakeApp

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Hours spent reading books per person per week:

🇮🇳 India - 10:42
🇹🇭 Thailand - 09:24
🇨🇳 China - 08:00
🇵🇭 Philippines - 07:36
🇪🇬 Egypt - 07:30
🇨🇿 Czechia - 07:24
🇷🇺 Russia - 07:06
🇸🇪 Sweden - 06:54
🇫🇷 France - 06:54
🇭🇺 Hungary - 06:48
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 06:48
🇭🇰 Hong Kong - 06:42
🇵🇱 Poland - 06:30
🇻🇪 Venezuela - 06:24
🇿🇦 South Africa - 06:18
🇦🇺 Australia - 06:18
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 06:00
🇦🇷 Argentina - 05:54
🇹🇷 Turkey - 05:54
🇪🇸 Spain - 05:48
🇨🇦 Canada - 05:48
🇩🇪 Germany - 05:42
🇺🇸 USA - 05:42
🇮🇹 Italy - 05:36
🇲🇽 Mexico - 05:30
🇬🇧 UK - 05:18
🇧🇷 Brazil - 05:15
🇹🇼 Taiwan - 05:00
🇯🇵 Japan - 04:06
🇰🇷 South Korea - 03:06