Initiator Creator - Issue #118

​By Saurabh Y. // 11 February 2023

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Developer

​Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning - Quanta Magazine

“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.

​Understanding App Directory Architecture In Next.js - Smashing Magazine

The new App Directory architecture has been the main character of the recent Next.js release, which keeps bringing up many questions. In this article, Atila Fassina explores the advantages and pitfalls of this new strategy and reflects on whether you should use it in production now or not.

​AI is a feature, not a product - Tom Creighton

AI generation is a black box: you can have an expectation of what sort of output you’ll get, but you’re essentially throwing spaghetti at the wall until the algorithm produces something that you like.

​Rust's Ugly Syntax - matklad

Most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust’s syntax, they actually object to Rust’s semantics.

​Google launches Bard, its answer to ChatGPT - Search Engine Land

Google promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.

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Designer

​Shift Happens: A Forthcoming Book Catalogs the 150-Year History of the Keyboard - Colossal

What if QWERTY wasn’t the standard keyboard layout? A forthcoming book by Chicago-based designer and writer Marcin Wichary examines the now-ubiquitous format and how it came to dominate modern technology.

​How Pinterest’s design systems team measures adoption - Design Systems

Identifying good metrics for Pinterest’s design system, Gestalt, is no different. It’s hugely important for our team to know how much value we’re providing, and for our leadership to understand whether the investment is paying off.

​A Simple Guide to Hierarchical Task Analysis - Make Iterate

It’s useful for UX Designers because it provides a structured and systematic method for understanding the tasks and goals of the users.

​Board game UX: a study on error prevention - UX Collective

How do you prevent errors in a board game? A quick review on some techniques used in board games and how they relate to tech development.

​Discovery in Agile - NN/g

Scaling discovery work in Agile helps teams plan appropriately scoped activities around targeted questions and probable assumptions instead of arbitrary sprint timeframes.

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Entrepreneur

​When Your Feelings Conflict with Your Leadership Role - Harvard Business Review

While the emotional work you do as a leader may go unrecognized and undervalued, it is more vital than ever in today’s work world. This labor is often a selfless and prosocial act, allowing you to care for and positively impact others even when you’re not feeling it

​Why Leaders Should Be Open About Their Flaws - Harvard Business Review

Leaders often struggle to come across as authentic. New research finds that one reason is they frequently choose to present their strengths and intentionally avoid disclosing their weaknesses.

​The Systems of Elite CEOs: Setting the Stage for Billion-Dollar Growth - Nfx

An overlooked key to growth: How well you transition from Founder to CEO determines how your company scales.

​How to know whether or not self-employment is right for you - The Ask

This post poses four key questions to help you consider if in fact self-employment is right for you at this point in time, and offers some real-life perspectives of those who already made the leap.

​Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement - The Verge

Getty Images has filed a case against Stability AI, alleging that the company copied 12 million images to train its AI model ‘without permission

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Marketer

​What is entity SEO and why is it matters - SERPStat

Entity SEO is gaining more and more popularity. However, at first glance, it can be difficult to understand what it is and whether it is really worthwhile.

​5 Ways Brands Can Improve Email Signup Processes - CMSWire

From confusing signup forms to dead-end confirmation pages, learn what to avoid to maximize every signup interaction.

​How to organize your B2B growth marketing team - MKT1

And what's the difference between growth marketing and demand generation?

​9 Common Technical SEO Issues That Actually Matter - Ahrefs

In this article, we’ll see how to find and fix technical SEO issues, but only those that can seriously affect your rankings.

​If growth is not marketing, then what is growth marketing? - Emils Veveris

This article will be useful to you in filtering and evaluating opportunities and ensuring a win-win situation. Whether you are looking for a growth job, looking to hire or looking to find alignment with other GTM teams to make it work.

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Interesting Read

​How to have better conversations on social media - Ted Ed

If you truly want to have a meaningful exchange with someone else, you’ll need to have some empathy for them.

​Screw motivation, what you need is discipline - Wisdomination

If you want to get anything done, there are two basic ways to get yourself to do it. The first, more popular and devastatingly wrong option is to try to motivate yourself. The second, somewhat unpopular and entirely correct choice is to cultivate discipline.

​Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds - James Clear

What’s going on here? Why don’t facts change our minds? And why would someone continue to believe a false or inaccurate idea anyway? How do such behaviors serve us?

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Outro

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