Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 42

Initiator Creator - Issue #42

​By Saurabh Y. // 19 December 2020

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Developer

​Ganja.js - Geometric Algebra Generator for Javascript, c++, c#, rust, python - Github

Ganja.js is a Geometric Algebra code generator for javascript. It generates Clifford algebras and sub-algebras of any signature and implements operator overloading and algebraic constants.

​Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform - Mozilla Hacks

After several intense months of work on such a significant change, the MDN Web Docs’ new platform (codenamed Yari) is finally launched!

​The 6 Principles of Effective Data Visualization - Medium

This article is inspired by Edward Tufte's book Beautiful Eidence, which encapsulates six principles for how to make data graphics that are useful and informative. It’s these principles that separate useful graphics from those that aren’t.

Designer

​The Best Design Tool Of 2020 Is Not What You Expect - UX Collective

Design tools becomes an obsession of the design community. As it's that time of the year, Jose Torre, Staff designer of Spotify, decided to write about it and pic what he think is the best design tool. Spoiler alert, it's not what you expect.

​UI Trends For 2077 - UX Collective

As a designer, when playing a video game that has user interfaces inside of it, you can’t help but to think about how they’re made and how they fit the lore and time of the game. In this article, Michal Malewicz, co-founder of Hype4, imagined the future of User Interfaces from touch through VR, AR, all the way to direct neural connections.

​Unconventional Stock Image Sources - CSS-Tricks

Conventional stock image sources like Unsplash is the only source of great images. Mel Choyce discovered the solution to his stock imagery problem, ironically, on Unsplash. He noticed photos from sources like the British Library, Birmingham Museums Trust, and Library of Congress. Who often has archives of public domain imagery? Libraries, museums, and governments. The sites are never a site like Unsplash, but they work well if you have the time and patience to dive through their archives.

Entrepreneur

​How This CEO Creates an Internal Culture With a “Crazy Focus” on Good Storytelling - FirstRound

In this article Drift CEO David Cancel shared his thoughts on storytelling. What's particularly interesting about his take, though, is that he believes storytelling is just as important internally as it is externally. Here are five of he lessons he's learned about creating a strong internal culture with a "crazy focus" on storytelling.

​Individuals or Teams: Who’s the Better Customer for SaaS Products? - Bottom Up

A common dilemma for SaaS founders is whether to focus on individual users or teams as the primary customer. This decision has important implications for pricing and packaging as well as product design. As per David Sacks, Founder/CEO of Yammer and founding COO of PayPal, Team plans are where the money is, and therefore where founders should focus their energy and resources. Individual plans can be useful to generate leads, but their long-term revenue potential is significantly smaller.

​From Direct-to-Consumer to Direct-to-Believers - NiemanLab

“Your competition isn’t limited to other organizations that also do news. Your competition is what your true believer spends her time doing instead of reading your Very Important Article.” Whatever you do in 2021, make sure you’re building your media business around something valuable enough to pay for.

Marketer

​How To Write Effective Email Preheaders - Emailmastery

An email preheader is the summary text that comes after a subject line when the email is viewed in the recipient’s inbox, but before they open it.

​What is Direct Traffic in Google Analytics and How to Analyze It? - Databox

If you think direct traffic is based exclusively on users typing your website address directly into their browsers, then read this. It explains the full scope of what causes direct traffic, and how best to interpret it in Google Analytics.

​Growth Marketing Checklists - Checklists to help optimise your marketing efforts - Dan Siepen

A huge collection of marketing checklists to help with your startup marketing efforts across various channels.

Interesting Read

​The Books That Got Us Through 2020 - OpenView

If you were curious to know what’s at the top of everyone’s personal “best of” books list this year, the OpenView community members shared their favorites. Take a look and consider adding a few of these to your 2021 reading list.

​Activation energy: the chemistry of getting started - Ness Labs

Activation energy is the energy that must be provided to result in a chemical reaction. The more energy is needed, the harder it is to start the chemical reaction. In work and life as well, we sometimes need to get over the initial hump of getting started.

Community Submissions

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #42

This issue is sponsored by Safetywing. Safetywing is global health insurance for remote workers and digital nomads.

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