Initiator Creator - Issue #131

​By Saurabh Y. // 15 July 2023

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Developer

​Do large language models know what they are talking about? - StackOverflow

Large language models seem to possess the ability to reason intelligently, but does that mean they actually know things?

​Database Indexing Strategies - Byte Byte Go

This article provides an in-depth look at index architecture and discusses best practices to help us design effective indexes to meet the needs of our application.

​Build unique charts with React - React Graph Gallary

Based on hundreds of graph examples, this gallery guides you through the basic concepts of data visualization with React and D3.js. It also provides ready-to-use templates to get started quicker.

​Danswer: Ask Questions in natural language and get Answers backed by private sources like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc. - Github

Danswer allows you to ask natural language questions against internal documents and get back reliable answers backed by quotes and references from the source material so that you can always trust what you get back.

​Create an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL - Xata

PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.

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Designer

​Virtual Queues: 13 Best Practices for Managing the Wait - NN/g

Many customer journeys include touchpoints where users must wait in line, whether for a physical or an online interaction. When designed well, virtual queues can help manage this wait in a way that frees up users to do other things.

​How is propaganda designed and why is it so effective? - UX Collective

A powerful tool designed to shape perceptions, manipulate emotions, and steer behaviors toward desired outcomes.

​Invisible Details of Interaction Design - Rauno Freiberg

This essay is not a tutorial nor a collection of guidelines. But rather an observation on the invisible details of a few interactions

​How is food packaging designed to promote healthiness? - UX Collective

The art of deception explained & why some “health” foods might not be as healthy as you thought.

​Lean Product Design: A Playbook - Browser

This guide gives you a heap of tactics that you can use to understand customer problems and test buying intent.

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Entrepreneur

​How Snowflake builds product - Lenny's Newsletter

An interview with Jeff Hollan, Director of Product for Snowflake’s Developer Platform and Ecosystem

​Software Ate All the Easy Shit - Substack

Rather than pursuing high-status, cool ideas, more founders should start companies that solve unsexy problems and compete in unsexy industries.

​Customer Obsession is the Only Winning Strategy - Matt Rickard

Being customer obsessed is hard. It can mean decisions that put customers before short-term shareholders

​Selecting the right product metrics - A Smart Bear

A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.

​Why customers don’t want chat bots - Creative Good

The tech industry continues to push forward with chat bots, even though customers don’t want them – at least for customer service, the venue for problems that the regular website or app can’t handle.

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Marketer

​Show don't sell: the power of non-coercive marketing - Mailchimp

This new, unconventional approach might seem counterintuitive, but it's proving to be an effective strategy for brands wanting to stand out.

​Demand Generation Strategy: How to Get Buyers to Line Up to Work With You - Social Media Examiner

Demand gen strategy offers a counterpoint to lead generation. It's all about how people buy the things that they want and need. It encourages marketers to understand their customers.

​How to Build a Full-Funnel Marketing Strategy - Ahrefs

This article aims to teach you how to build a simple and effective full-funnel marketing strategy so you can target potential buyers at all stages of your customer journey.

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Interesting Read

​Who Decides What a New Planet Looks Like? It’s an Artist, Not a Telescope - Behavioral Scientist

Artists are the ones who turn the place an astronomer can understand into one the public can imagine their way onto.

​Loss Aversion Bias: Why Most People Fail Before They Even Try - Frontera​

Loss aversion bias is a mental bias that causes people to make wrong decisions to avoid losses. Because the pain from losses is more powerful than the joy from gains.

​Turning Fear of Failure into Increments of Curiosity - Ness Labs

It’s far easier to not be wrong when you’re not putting yourself out there. But it’s also much harder to grow as a human being when we avoid getting out of our comfort zone.

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Community Submissions

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​You Can Have Your Retirement Fantasy Today - Nir And Far Dreaming of retirement helps you fantasize about your ideal life—and potentially have it now

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Outro

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