Derek Lam

[Derek Lam @malkered]

Don Rickles’s story about bumping into Sinatra at dinner is absolutely legendary.

[Derek Lam @malkered]

This is just unreal entertainment

[Dancing Astronaut @dancingastro]

The @SphereVegas debut did not let down 🤯

The largest and highest resolution LED on the planet. Begging for a dance music show here

(🎥: lynchmd/TikTok)

[Dancing Astronaut @dancingastro]

Another insane look at @SphereVegas

I can’t process the ceiling visual at the end

(🎥 via @whatsinside)

[Derek Lam @malkered]

@amfilandrinos What did I miss?

[Derek Lam @malkered]

I had no idea that was Pee Wee. I loved that scene. RIP.

[Derek Lam @malkered]

@gags_sandhu @unusual_whales Can you share this spreadsheet and AI tool?

[Derek Lam @malkered]

@artripoli Having a burn while it’s burning as sun burns

[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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[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Lil Wayne tells Rolling Stone he was interested in a 'Mixtape Weezy vs Lil Wayne' Verzuz.

"There ain’t no other artist that can stand on the stage next to me, bro. I’m sorry."

Read our interview with @LilTunechi here: https://t.co/sK0KbIChyO

[Derek Lam @malkered]

Rocky the @nuggets mascot reportedly earns $625K per season. Highest in the league. Getting that BAG of jelly donuts! @tboypod

[Derek Lam @malkered]

So this is just a massive win for the Saudis and LIV players right? I don’t understand how PGA benefits. Can someone explain? Tbh I always thought LIV might fold. Disclaimer I haven’t been as close to golf lately.

[Derek Lam @malkered]

@visitmiami @MiamiBeachNews What hotel?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

For David Fincher's «Alien 3» (1992), Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. created the "Bambi Burster". This clip shows the rod puppet in action

[video: https://t.co/wddZ53dVOz]
https://t.co/b2NK9Dx4aP

[Derek Lam @malkered]

Holy shit there’s a new channel of Samsung TV that’s just @ConanOBrien He’s the 🐐

[Derek Lam @malkered]

@barstoolsports @highnoonsunsips @nooners Doses & Mimosas - Cherub

[The Psychology Of Money @Psy_of_Money]

"The freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, for as long as yo want, is true freedom."

- The Psychology Of Money

[Derek Lam @malkered]

Tornado and hail in Miami today. If you’re wondering, it’s not normal.

[Derek Lam @malkered]

NVDA 🚀

[Derek Lam @malkered]

@unusual_whales Tales from the crypt

[Derek Lam @malkered]

@unusual_whales Cowards

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

"IRREGARDLESS" HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1795. ITS INCLUSION IN THE DICTIONARY IS NOT A SIGN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FALLING TO PIECES, OR PROOF OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FAILING, NOR IS IT THE WORK OF CURSED MILLENNIALS. IT JUST MEANS A LOT OF PEOPLE USE IT TO MEAN "REGARDLESS."