Linda G Kondile

“When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it" - Paulo Coelho

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@house_of_sunny wait what, all this said with such conviction. Hayi lets shut down the internet people

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@house_of_sunny Please do unfortunately they don't really talk about the thing that made them famous

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@house_of_sunny it's a mess but i hate to say i love watching it.

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@NMandelaBaymuni Where is walmer 1st - 6th avenue here?

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[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@house_of_sunny Your body is never the same after that. Like basically you pushing like you pooping. Nope no nooo

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[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@NMandelaBaymuni There clearly is a problem here. I dont remeber a day this week without issue. Let's stop loadshedding and sort it out. Also inform the people😒��

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@NMandelaBaymuni This is now the second day of no electricity. Can you make this a priority to sort out!

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[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@thinashemotale Such a petty fella. Did he expose the actual dm? Ignore me I have no business asking🫣

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@thinashemotale What🤣😂😭

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@NMandelaBaymuni Power is still out on ferguson road. Please provide an update!

[Linda G Kondile @lgk000]

@NMandelaBaymuni Does this include ferguson road, which has also been out since 10pm last night?

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[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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