Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 47

Initiator Creator - Issue #47

​By Saurabh Y. // 23 January 2021

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Developer

​Google releases ToTTo: A Controlled Table-to-Text Generation Dataset - Google Blog

A challenging benchmark for high-precision text generation, and a controlled text generation task that can be used to assess model “hallucination”.

​Software effort estimation is mostly fake research - The Shape of Code

Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise. While effort estimation is something that everybody in industry is involved with on a regular basis, it is a niche topic in software engineering research.

​Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP - Mnm

The mnm project is building a legitimate email replacement: a client, a server, and a simple protocol between them.

Designer

​A comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables - UX Collective

The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process.

​Why we need Mindful Notifications & how to Design them - This too shall grow

Notifications today impede our focus, get in the way of our plans, cause cognitive overload, and are too often devoid of meaning. Designers, developers, and makers have a role to play in crafting mindful UX: weighing the pros and cons of each notification, evaluating its relevance, giving power to the users, and trying to mitigate unintended consequences.

​Staff Design - Navigating the individual contributor career path - Staff Design

Staff Design is a collection of interviews exploring how product designers navigate the individual contributor path to its highest levels.

Entrepreneur

​The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2020 - First Round Review

At the beginning of every year, the First Round Review team pours over each article they published in the previous year and synthesizes the best pieces of advice. This year's recap was full of amazing gems and is worth a read.

​5 Interesting Learnings from Atlassian at $2B in ARR - SaaStr

Atlassian is a fascinating case study because it showed so many of us that developer-focused SaaS products can be huge, and not just huge, but huge even in competitive markets.  Atlassian dominates several markets where it still has intense competition (e.g., everyone from Asana on), and is fine ceding areas to partners where it’s less strong (e.g, Slack).

​Management Debt - A16Z

Like technical debt, management debt is incurred when you make an expedient, short-term management decision with an expensive, long-term consequence. Also like technical debt, the trade-off sometimes makes sense, but often does not. More importantly, if you incur the management debt without accounting for it, then you will eventually go management bankrupt.

​15 Ways to Increase Your Team's Velocity - Twitter

Lenny Rachitsky, best known for Lenny's newsletter, comes through with a great, tweet thread. It's a simple list of 15 ways you can increase your team's velocity, with a link to learn more about it if you'd like.

Marketer

​The Ultimate List of Email Marketing Statistics For Creators in 2021 - Convertkit

Most email marketing advice available online are aimed at brands with massive audiences. This is a helpful run-through by Kieran Tie, content strategist at Convertkit, of how to optimize open and clickthrough rates, segment your list intelligently, and ultimately grow your audience.

​Do Email Subscription Pop-Ups work? - Really Good Emails

Why do organizations still utilize pop-ups when clearly anyone you ask hates them? It turns out that there’s a lot of research out there about the annoyance of pop-ups.

​How to Analyze SERPs to Win Big in Rankings - CXL

Google is always changing how it displays search results. The starting point for any effective SEO strategy is understanding what Google chooses to show and why. Only then can you figure out what you need to create or adjust on your site to show up more often—and in higher positions.

Interesting Read

​Creative burnout: when the creativity tap runs dry - Ness Labs

Whether they know it or not, all creators have experienced it at least once. Creative burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion around creative work. The symptoms can be hard to pinpoint, and the potential causes are many.

​Re-imagining what it means to build a direct relationship with an audience - Splice

The serial media entrepreneur is testing a space for constructive and empathetic journalism in the middle of a pandemic.

Community Submissions

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​JPEG.rocks: Privacy-aware JPEG optimizer​

Online lossless optimization of your JPEG files done client side. Choose how much compression, which apparently doesn’t change the image to the naked eye, even with a strong setting.

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #47

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

If you value Initiator Creator, feel free to forward this copy to your friends. Suggestions or comments? Hit reply or DM me at @ICforpreneurs​

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