#lkie #burpees

Happy Friday / Saturday 🙏 any weekend plans?

"Angular objects are more effective at attracting attention and engaging thought; contoured objects are more effective at making a positive emotional and aesthetic impression."

Contour Bias: "When presented with objects that possess sharp angles or pointed features, a region of the human brain involved in fear processing, the amygdala, is activated. Likely a subconscious mechanism that evolved to detect potential threats, this fear response suggests that angular features influence the way in which objects are perceived."

#wordsOfWisdom

Another gem from Universal Principles of Design:

"Cathedral Effect: A relationship between the perceived height of a ceiling and cognition. High ceilings promote abstract thinking and creativity. Low ceilings promote concrete and detail-oriented thinking."

I can only think of one site that incorporates this, Forrest, a design community (and I think it is no longer around). Do you know of any sites / apps that deliberately look like nature?

Great book so far. Similar to A Pattern Language (for architecture but I think designers in general / most people would like it too as it's really about human nature).

"One interesting finding is that the effect does not seem to require real plants in the environment, but mere imagery—window views, posters on the wall, and so forth seem to suffice. 4"

"A comparable effect was observed with college students based on the nature views from their dorm windows. Studies that examined the effects of gardening, backpacking, and exposure to nature pictures versus urban pictures corroborate the effect."

"...For example, in a longitudinal study following seven-to twelve-year-olds through housing relocation, children who experienced the greatest increase in nature views from their windows made the greatest gains in standard tests of attention"

Biophilia Effect: "Environments rich in nature views and imagery reduce stress and enhance focus and concentration."

Some quotes from the book "Universal Principles of Design" on the Biophilia Effect:

#lkie nice spoken word at the end 👍

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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”  ― Friedrich Nietzsche

I also don't get it. Extended capacity? Hehe

And with you! Welcome 🙏

Welcome to the peeposphere, Kwadjo :)

Squats today. Warming up. Unicorn still in the corner.

Good night Wissam 🌚

Making an Insight feature that will let you find your closest personality matches (only for public reports) along the Big Five dimensions. Feature creep? Perhaps, but adds a nice social discovery element. At least one study shows that we tend to friend people like us so it could be useful.

The "social platforms" of the web0 world. #lkie although email is quite convenient :)

Words of wisdom. Much could be said on that topic. Welcome to Peepeth! 🎉

"Salto Mortale": take the leap even if you don't feel completely ready.

Seth Godin is a great speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdUeq09cGJ0

A new day; more insights.

Welcome to Peepeth Brad! 🐧🐧🐧

#lkie That looks like a wonderfully simple UI. Looking forward to trying it out!

I relate to the focus on building over marketing, etc. Reading / watching Seth Godin is really inspiring for marketing stuff.

One thing that's really helped is doing uneven pull-ups with a resistance band. Grip the bar with one hand and the resistance band with the other, and focus on pulling with the bar-hand into your shoulder.

Doing that for the last 3 weeks, I got one PR last week and one today. That is very fast progress for me; my previous pull-up PR was in Feb.

#lkie enjoy. I was just reminiscing about the hostel experience. Fun times :)

What are you working on today? Insights for me again. Writing copy mainly.

Pullups. Getting better, slowly.

From the Economist "Stephen Schwarzman, one of the founders of Blackstone, donated £150m ($190m) to Oxford University, the biggest gift to a British institution of learning in modern times. The private-equity investor said the money would help research into artificial intelligence, which governments “are utterly unprepared to deal with”." Thoughts?

Hey all- sorry for the downtime! Server crashed last night ):

I collect #blockHorses. And Peepeth badges I guess. What's your favorite collectible?

#burpeesOfPeepeth time

Working on Insight again today: making progress on the landing page, copy, and design.

Happy Monday all!

Peeping on an exercise ball is quite relaxing. Feels great to stretch out on this thing.

Thanks James!

Have been watching this channel for design tips if anyone's interested: https://youtu.be/v_7Mh7d4utQ

Hehe

They're awesome. Sometimes I'd launder it in the sink and put it on immediately, because nobody could tell it was wet and it was hot out (same one as in my background pic).

I'm implementing a basic version of this soon :) thanks for the suggestion!

If only one could keep it top of mind all the time. Like memento mori. Although certainly possible to move in the right direction.

Hey Brandon! Welcome. #wypf?

Welcome grillin. Nice quote. I was just thinking that my projections need updating :)

Talk about quality problems :) that looks amazing. Hope the frame holds up until the harvest. What will you do with the apples?

Fingers crossed! Welcome to Peepeth 🎉🐧

#lkie