Initiator Creator - Issue #117

​By Saurabh Y. // 4 February 2023

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Developer

​AI applications open new security vulnerabilities - StackOverflow

Your ML model and AI-as-a-service apps might open new attack surfaces. Here's how to mitigate them.

​Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way - Builder

Did you know, there's now a native way in JavaScript to do deep copies of objects? That's right, this structuredClone function is built into the JavaScript runtime

​How to optimize your code reviews - Github

Code review is a significant time commitment, and it is important that we evaluate how engineering teams can make the most of it.

​How To Lose Functional Programming At Work - Robert Pearce

If you’re looking to lose functional programming at work, here are a bunch of mistakes I’ve made on JS-heavy web teams over the years that can help you do the same.

​So you want to make a new JS framework - Dave Rupert

"I sometimes think about what it would take to start a successful JS framework project in the year"

Designer

​The Mystery of the Dune Font - Fonts In Use

Putting a name to the typeface that defined the visual identity of the science fiction series and its author, Frank Herbert

​CASTLE Framework for Workplace Applications UX - NN/g

CASTLE offers a complementary assessment framework for UX that focuses on the needs of internal product teams.

​Creativity as a system - UX Collective

A creative system is confined by boundaries (e.g. a specific creative context) and has inputs, stocks, processes, outputs, and feedback loops.

​6 Tips for Better Participant Engagement in Diary Studies - NN/g

Keeping participants engaged and providing good-quality entries in diary studies can be challenging; recruit the right people, incentivize them appropriately, and keep recording entries simple.

​Product design is going down a weird path, but we can still save it - UX Collective

A casual analysis of our current design industry compared to the old days and principles, and why it's important to step back and re-think our path.

Entrepreneur

​Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? - Andreessen Horowitz

The goal of this post is to map out the dynamics of the market and start to answer the broader questions about generative AI business models.

​Developing a Worldview - Every

If you want to be a great leader, you need to develop a worldview. You might think you don't have one—but you probably do. It's just implicit rather than explicitly articulated.

​How Early-Stage Startups Can Enlist The Right Amount of Security As They Grow - First Round

Graham outlines the distinct ways that startups should approach security at each growth stage, including when they should make their first security hire.

​Building multiple products — how (and when) to do it - Indiehackers

The trick is to be very strategic about what you build and what you don't. That means validating before you build a thing.

​How Coda builds product - Lenny's Newsletter

Lane Shackleton, CPO at Coda, shares his team’s templates, day-to-day processes, and hard-earned lessons

Marketer

​How to build a Growth Model? - Substack

A growth model is an equation that tells you what are the different variables in your business and how they work together and translate into growth.

​14 lessons after 5 years at Miro as a Growth Product Manager - UX Collective

Working in the Rocketship is challenging, interesting, and hard sometimes, and here are Viktoria Kharlamova's main lessons after these 5 years of her space adventure.

​How Does Internal Linking Impact Topical Authority? - iPullRank

Learn how you can use internal linking to organize your site structure and give search engines hints to your preferred topical authority.

​The Decoy Effect - Matt Rickard

The Decoy Effect is a cognitive bias that occurs when people are presented with two options, and one of the options is clearly inferior to the other.

​Navigating Software Purchasing Psychology - Substack

The role of emotion in B2B Sales, bounded rationality, and capitalizing on motivations.

Interesting Read

​A Physical Theory For When the Brain Performs Best - Quanta Magazine

The critical brain hypothesis suggests that neural networks do their best work when connections are not too weak or too strong.

​Vectors of Action: The Power of Velocity over Speed - Ness Labs

We’re stuck in a pointless pursuit, trying to outrun each other and ultimately outrunning ourselves. As a result, the breakneck pace of blind productivity is leaving many people burnt out.

​Thinking through the Bull Case for OpenAI’s threat to Google’s dominance - Medium

ChatGPT’s interface is to say the least, bold. A chat interface is unbounded in the requests you can make, and the nature of its singular answer delivered with an can leave you in the trance of believing its omniscience.

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