Initiator Creator - Issue #144 - ( Read in browser )

​By Saurabh Y. // 10 Nov 2024

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Entrepreneur

​The new era of AI business models - Substack

So far, two main business models have emerged that AI companies are leveraging.

​How to Navigate Product Discovery Like a Map - Tim herbig

Instead of rigid processes, think of Discovery as a path you navigate.

​Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product - Linear

Today's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often about building a better version of an idea, not validating a novel one. It’s not good enough to be first with an idea. You have to out-execute from day 1.

​Product Vision vs Strategy vs Goals vs Roadmap: The Advanced Edition - Product Compass

Many PMs struggle to explain the difference between Product Vision, Strategy, Objectives, and Roadmap. But those are extremely simple concepts.

​Product Innovation: Stop Inventing Cool Sh*t Your Customers Don’t Want! - Product Compass

In a study of 2000 product innovation projects, Robert G Copper identified the number one factor behind innovation failure was “a lack of thoroughness in identifying real needs in the marketplace”, with teams often “making assumptions in order to justify the project”.

Marketer

​Content Marketing Strategy: A Complete Guide for SaaS Companies - Animalz

A blog is only as good as the strategy and content production behind it. Here are the questions you must answer before and during.

​How to Engage Your Email Subscribers - Business

Want more people to read your emails? Learn how to engage your subscribers and boost email marketing ROI.

​Distribution Is King - Every

What video games can teach us about building billion-dollar companies

​How to 10x your event sign-ups - Marketing Ideas

You only need to change 1 word in the copy to attract quality attendees.

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Developer

​Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their Workers platform infrastructure? - Shivang

Cloudflare's V8 isolate architecture, in contrast, warms up a function in under 5 milliseconds or less. However, this approach has trade-offs like any other design decision.

​Repeatability: As Difficult as it is Important - Systems Approach

Democratization is More than Just Open Source.

​How to become a more effective engineer - Pragmatic engineer

The importance of soft skills, implicit hierarchies, getting to “small wins”, understanding promotion processes and more.

​JSR Is Not Another Package Manager - Deno

creation of JSR, not as another package manager but as a transformative registry designed to revolutionize how JavaScript and TypeScript are shared across server-side runtimes, browsers, and various tools.

​Edge.js - Run .NET and Node.js code in-process on Windows, macOS, and Linux - Github

Edge.js takes care of marshaling data between CLR and V8. Edge.js also reconciles threading models of single-threaded V8 and multi-threaded CLR.

Designer

​Why Designers Fail: The Research - Substack

Data on where designers struggle the most at work.

​Tactile Controls: Why Buttons Are Making a Comeback - IEEE Spectrum

Touchscreen controls in some new car models are being replaced by conventional knobs and buttons.

​Research Plans: Organize, Document, Inform - NN/g

Start every UX-research study with a plan. Research plans document goals, methods, and logistics.

​Screening Participants for User-Research Studies - NN/g

Well-written screeners ensure that your study participants are appropriate for your research goals, improve data quality, save resources, and reduce bias.

​Woah, opacity! A full guide to this badass hero of efficient UI design - Evil Martians

Transparent colors are a staple of modern operating systems, yet, for some reason, web apps still underutilize this marvel of modern interface design.

Interesting Read

​Writing as a Way of Thinking - Every

This piece pinpoints one of the things I love so much about writing: It is a way of thinking for me. But I don’t share his worries about writing or thinking.

​Writes and Write-Nots - Paul graham

The reason so many people have trouble writing is that it's fundamentally difficult. To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.

​Future Self: Distinction Bias in Making Life Choices - Nir and Far

Psychologists believe we are in two different modes when we compare options versus when we experience them. When making a choice, we are in comparison mode. But when we live out our decisions, we are in experience mode.

Community Submissions

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