Initiator Creator - Issue #56

​By Saurabh Y. // 24 April 2021

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Developer

​How to Write a Technical Book - Serhack

For some people, publishing a book represents a dream, or lifelong goal, whereby they share a particular experience or subject matter expertise.

​Writing Effective Tests for Modern Web Apps - Medium

This article will cover high-level patterns and testing strategies. It will not be a step-by-step guide on writing tests. The examples will use libraries like Jest, Testing Library, jest-fetch-mock and more, but will only mention the relevant pieces and leave the details to the docs for each respective library.

​Facebook releases Flashlight: An open source machine learning library written entirely in C++ - Facebook AI

Flashlight is a new open source machine learning (ML) library, written entirely in C++, that was built by FAIR to power groundbreaking research by enabling teams to rapidly and easily modify deep and ML frameworks to better fit their needs.

​Plasmic - The visual page builder and web design tool that works with React - Plasmic

A WYSIWYG visual front-end builder and design tool. For React, Next and Gatsby, and more.

​Jamstack SEO Guide - Bejamas

Whether you are running a Jamstack website or not, this is a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know to succeed at SEO.

Designer

​How to make blog images stand out & reflect your brand identity - Stephanie Walter

From photos, to illustrations, mosaics and abstract patterns: This post is about how could you make your blog headers, images and other visual content part of your brand identity.

​Best practices for cookie notices - Web dev

This article discusses how cookie notices can affect performance, performance measurement, and user experience.

​What does it mean to be inclusive in UX Research? - UX Collective

Inclusive Design is the design of an environment so that it can be accessed and used by as many people as possible, regardless of age, gender and disability. An environment that is designed inclusively is not just relevant to buildings; it also applies to surrounding open spaces, wherever people go about everyday activities.

​Upscale by Sticker Mule - Increase the resolution of any graphic or photo, instantly - UX Collective

It automatically transform images 8x their original size without a loss in quality.

Entrepreneur

​Founders: Being Busy Doesn't Mean You're Being Productive - OpenView

Are you too busy for important work? Being busy doesn’t always equate with being productive. Productivity requires time for “deep work.” Deep work happens when you’re able to work with an uninterrupted focus on typically a hard or complex problem.

​The 13 Business Failure Modes - Stacking the bricks

Many people fail when starting a business, not because of bad ideas, but because they treat their business like a hobby instead of treating it like their future. Here are 13 common failure modes, and also how you can avoid them.

​How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit - FirstRound

Product-market fit is the number one reason why startups succeed. This document contains a powerful engine to define, measure, and systematically increase product/market fit. It can even generate your roadmap for you!

​Between Sales and Product: Building Out Self-Serve and Customer Experience at Notion & Dropbox - FirstRound

As founders are increasingly leaning into product-led growth and self-serve strategies, there are plenty of potholes to derail their progress. For both sales-driven companies that are intrigued by self-serve and bottoms-up businesses wrestling with when to layer on sales, Taylor makes for the perfect guide.

Marketer

​ChartMogul’s CEO Nick Franklin on Achieving and Managing Hypergrowth - Intercom

Ask any founder and they’ll tell you – growing a fledgling startup into a thriving business is an exercise in survival.

​What’s a Good Conversion Rate for My Landing Page? - Unbounce

Conversion Benchmark Report uses machine learning to analyze more than 33 million conversions across 44 thousand Unbounce-built landing pages.

​How to Build Marketing Funnels with Email - Aweber

The marketing funnel is a tool that helps you visualize the customer journey, or the path a prospect takes as they become familiar with your company, from introduction to conversion.

Interesting Read

​Are you a taker, a giver, or a matcher? - Ness Labs

Some people only help when it benefits themselves, others foster transactional relationships, while yet others are generous with their time and energy, without asking for anything in return. Whether in their personal or professional relationships, takers, givers, and matchers achieve different outcomes.

​Why our relationship with young achievers is so complicated - BBC Worklife

Young super-achievers both fascinate and frustrate us. This love-hate relationship tells us a lot about culture – and ourselves.

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Outro

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