Have you ever wondered why Medium chose a green heart for its recommend icon? 💚
To have “green eyes” means to look at something with envy. It means you have a jealous bone and are looking at the material worth of an object rather than its sentimental or emotional value.
So maybe we all have a green heart when we are hungry for recommendations. Medium’s green heart is a hungry heart. We are looking for a material manifestation of acceptance or praise.
Like the Boss says:
Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Don’t make no difference what nobody says
Ain’t nobody like to be aloneEverybody’s got a hungry heart
Everybody’s got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody’s got a hungry heart
But green is also the color of growth. Perhaps we are wishing continued growth to people that we give the green heart to. We are saying, this is fresh, keep reaching for the sun.
We are still in the spring of Medium.
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