Marshin

Passionately Curious, Automotive Designer, Engineer.

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

PATHETIC 🚨 82-year-old lady was left injured after Air India denied her wheelchair service at Delhi airport

In her ticket details, she had confirm wheelchair service.

Air India compelled her to walk by not providing her pre-booked wheel chair. As a result, she fell.

Family kept screaming for help but no one assisted.

The lady is in ICU currently.

[Gautam Baid @Gautam__Baid]

Source: The Making of a Value Investor

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Goosebumps 🙌

[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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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When we think about gravity as a concept, we tend to go with our thoughts to Isaac Newton and his apple, but an idea of gravity as attractive force, was first suggested by Indian astronomer Brahmagupta in the year 628 CE. He called it "gurutvākarṣaṇ" https://t.co/V6NDbBt2xJ

[Udit Goenka @iuditg]

A very interesting find. Same pizza store but one is 20% cheaper.

ONDC 👇 Zomato 👇

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

The #Bournvita story shows that Big Food is as toxic as Big Pharma

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Indian Govt. is planning to make it mandatory for health influencers to disclose qualifications. A health influencer, with reasonable qualifications, denounced Cadbury Bournvita for sugar content. A legal notice followed and 'health' was forgotten! https://t.co/j5KeKGUA2t

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Only as traffic approaches, Norway’s auto-dimming roads get brighter. LED lights dim to 20% when no cars are in area, but when cars drive by, the lights turn to 100%, reducing electricity consumptions

[read more: https://t.co/QNiD6V4LhN]
[📹 Bjørn Nyland]

[Marshin @MarshinBhatt]

If u have visited ladakh, and are in awe of its delicate ecological beauty and want it to stay the same in the future, #SonamWangchuk needs to be supported for this cause.
Government needs to come through what it promised to the people of ladakh.

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

GOOD MORNING WORLD!
4th day of my #ClimateFast to #SaveLadakh under #6thSchedule of Indian constitution.
You all can join me tomorrow 30th Jan, last day of my fast. You can organise a 1 day fast in your area in solidarity with #Ladakh & ur own surroundings
#climate #ILiveSimply

[Tsering Gaphel ༅༎ཚིི་ཪིང་དགའ་འཕེལ།། @Tsering_gaphel]

History is Repeating Once Again! Sonam Wangyal A dynamic leader & a father of sir #SonamWangchuk went on hunger strike twice to express Ladakhis demand for ST Status. In 1984 PM Indra Gandhi came to Leh & ended his fast by offering a glass of Juice & promised to grant ST #Ladakh

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

This clip is proof of just how Incredible India is. The Incredible diversity of co-existing cultures. The #HornbillFestival is so unique that it can only go from strength to strength…

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The lyrebird of the genus Menura can imitate the calls of at least 20 species of birds and more interestingly, other sounds it hears. David Attenborough shows one imitating a variety of unexpected sounds

[full video, BBC Earth: https://t.co/51EfzXgDT5]
https://t.co/OgPc1Bk6BM

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

One of those 'How come no one thought of this idea earlier?' moments! Take a bow, Cadbury 5-Star, and Ogilvy India - this is brilliant :)

As the famous dialog from Inception goes, "What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. 1/8

[Countere Magazine @CountereCulture]

What happens when you ask an AI to generate "Human Evolution."

This is terrifying.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.

Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦‍♂️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In this video on NightHawkInLight, Ben demonstrates how a "Lubor’s lens" works. This is a type of Fresnel lens that takes the light coming into it from the back at obtuse angles and projects it forward in the front of the lens

[video: https://t.co/i71noX9S5R]

[Marshin @MarshinBhatt]

@HaramiParindey @NachiketBhatt2

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Just can’t stop watching.
Most fashion shows these days. 😂