Kelly

Creative type | infrequent tweeter

[Ben Goertzel @bengoertzel]

Why we dropped the Claw from OmegaClaw (Mind over hands!!), and why this is the moment for a lot more people to start raising their own AI helpers... https://t.co/rz3hWmj1Nv

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@England What a person to share my birthday with 💥💥💥 happy birthday legend.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«The Black Hole» is an international prize winner short film that offers a portrait of temptation and greed from a genuinely sci-fi point of view.

[🎞️ Olly Williams and Phil Sansom]

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@JerichoWriters @gbpoliceadvisor Sounds exciting @JerichoWriters!

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@sophielflynn @JerichoWriters No doubt it’ll be another huge success, all the best @JerichoWriters 🙌

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@CFrancisWrites @JerichoWriters Lovely to see the brand alive and kicking @JerichoWriters

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@JamFactory @framer @JamFactory may I ask what plan you went for? I’m looking to update my site…

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@JamFactory @framer Love it! 🙌

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@AdoraStudioCo Traaaack

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@CreativeReview YEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!

[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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[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

Love this.

[Creative Review @CreativeReview]

Despite a cast packed full of celebrities, the real star of @NandosUK’s new ad is the brand itself https://t.co/7EKyHgNS0f @nca_ldn

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@mymind Just love this. Always loved the fact the shape has basically stayed, all these decades.

[mymind @mymind]

Timeless design in one picture.

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@LeasePlanUK Hi. Thanks but I have constantly chased via email, phone, LinkedIn messaged your CEO & other senior staff, facebooked etc. Nothing. No communication, no date when I can expect the car fixed, no end in sight. 5 days until Xmas travels… #nofaith #worstcustomerservice #leaseplan

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@LeasePlanUK I urge you to look into and deal with my complaint/issue in a way any decent brand would. My case nos. are: 15318477, 15373120, 15400831 & 15395773. I think that’s it. Ridiculous considering it’s just one ongoing issue. Does anyone in @LeasePlanUK actually care?

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@LeasePlanUK I still have no idea what is wrong with the car I lease from you. I HAVE CHASED MAIN DEALER, AGAIN. only to be told they still haven’t looked at the car. Attached my original letter of complaint - apologies for the layout… #disgracefulcustomerservice #leaseplan

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@England we’re all proud of what you guys did last night and throughout the tournament #3lions But is there anything that will be done about the refereeing of the match? Even an unbiased view would agree that was way below the standard required. Is there a process or plan?

[Kelly @Kelly_MvB]

@HKane @England @HKane you should be proud. As a nation we are of you. You’d be first on anyone’s list who knows anything about football to take the next penalty and the next…, whenever needed. A great captain, role model and footballer. #pride #3lions #englandfootball #WorldCup2022