Ruchi Srivastava

A Tech Professional who passionately believes that Tech drives the world. Life in between Photography, Music and Books!

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

You never know who you’ll bump into at #Wimbledon

[BCCI @BCCI]

📸 Frame This!

WE HAVE DONE IT! 👏 🏆

#T20WorldCup | #TeamIndia | #SAvIND | @ImRo45

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

INDIA'S TROPHY DROUGHT IS OVER! 🏆

[ICC @ICC]

The wait of 17 years comes to an end 🇮🇳

India win their second #T20WorldCup trophy 🏆

[BCCI @BCCI]

𝗖.𝗛.𝗔.𝗠.𝗣.𝗜.𝗢.𝗡.𝗦 🏆

#TeamIndia 🇮🇳 HAVE DONE IT! 🔝👏

ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 Champions 😍

#T20WorldCup | #SAvIND

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The more things you have, the more things you have to manage.

Simplicity isn't merely cheaper, it's easier.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you

[ICC @ICC]

Heads high, hearts proud 🇮🇳

#CWC23

[Shah Rukh Khan @iamsrk]

The way the Indian team has played this whole tournament is a matter of honour and they showed great spirit and tenacity. It’s a sport and there are always a bad day or two. Unfortunately it happened today….but thank u Team India for making us so proud of our sporting legacy in cricket…u bring too much cheer to the whole of India. Love and respect. You make us one proud Nation.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Remove yourself from people and places where you don’t feel valued and respected.

[Infosys @Infosys]

Infosys generative AI-based solution built on Amazon Bedrock enhanced productivity and levelled the playing field for newcomers in #MRO. The solution aims to reduce the expenditure on document search, analysis, interpretation, and management. https://t.co/28NoQhqqoO

[Piyush Goyal @PiyushGoyal]

UPI ATM: The future of fintech is here! 💪🇮🇳

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

[Nandan Nilekani @NandanNilekani]

A presentation of mine has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp. It is from a talk on India's #DigitalTransformation over the last 15 years led by the many #DigitalPublicInfrastructure (DPIs) we've built. There have been many non-linear changes in the country. I attempt to join the dots and present the bigger picture. It is a testament to the great work done by the government and our entrepreneurs!

For those not on WhatsApp (like me😀), I decided to release it under a Creative Commons license:

https://t.co/Llt9PGYdHY

You can also hear the talk: https://t.co/x3tYVTvY0S

If you have any more 🇮🇳 related data points or stories that you feel should be in next version, please reply here.

[Amul.coop @Amul_Coop]

#Amul Topical: Djokovic’s French Open win makes him the winner of the most Grand Slams - 23!

[Ruchi Srivastava @ruchis127]

Creativity is a function of library in our heads. Its a culmination of everything we have seen and read. What a brilliant story of getting inspiration from a different field of work to create something exemplary!
#nike #airmax #shoedog

[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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[Ruchi Srivastava @ruchis127]

@Neoreturns 😄😄

[Infosys @Infosys]

#InfosysQ4FY23 USD: Revenues at $4,554 million; YoY growth was 8.8% in constant currency and 6.4% in reported terms

[Infosys @Infosys]

#InfosysQ4FY23 115 new clients added in Q4 FY23; client count: 1,872

[Infosys @Infosys]

#InfosysQ4FY23 USD: Revenues were $18,212 million for full year ended Mar 31, 2023; YoY growth was 11.7% in reported terms and 15.4% in constant currency terms