Initiator Creator - Issue #69

​By Saurabh Y. // 25 July 2021

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Developer

​5 Common DataOps Mistakes (and How To Avoid Them) - OpenView

At GitLab, they’ve implemented tools like Snowflake and DBT in order to automate development, testing, and deployment to their production site.

​Why is SMS used as a way of verifying a user's mobile, when it is not even encrypted in transit? - StackExchange

Providers and governments can see these SMS messages in plaintext, but what is weird is that these messages are not encrypted in transit that makes the service vulnerable. But SMSes are still used because it can be used without special software/apps in any cellphone.

​Nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application - Github

A basic Node.js-powered tool for creating a desktop ‘app’ for any Web site using Electron as the webview. For Windows, macOS and Linux.

​Dropbox Engineering Career Framework - Dropbox

The Engineering Career Framework is your source for how to achieve impact for your role and team and how to grow in your engineering career.

​LiveKit - Open source platform for real time audio and video - LiveKit

LiveKit ships with many features out-of-the-box, so you can focus on your app instead of infrastructure.

Designer

​How HCI research has inspired famous design inventions - UX Collective

Here are 4 great HCI ideas that have influenced designers to create products that we now know and use every day.

​Why we're blind to color blue - Caleb Kruse

we'll explore why our eyes are unable to focus on the color blue, and how we see with our brain as much as with our eyes

​Typewriter Animation That Handles Anything You Throw at It - CSS-Tricks

We can animate multiple words just by changing the actual text. No need to modify the code every time you add a new word because JavaScript will do that for you!

​Color Tools And Resources - Smashing Magazine

Do you need a little inspiration boost? Smashing Magazine collected some useful color tools and resources — to help you get the most out of your creativity.

​Gridless.design - Gridless Design

This thesis and related examples are for designers to rely less on strict columns and consider these techniques for unpredictable content and uncertain dimensions.

Entrepreneur

​How To Build a Professional Network, According to Someone Who Networks for a Living - OpenView

"I approach my job with a people-first mindset, and it has never been about what someone can do for me or OpenView—it’s all about how I can help them. For this reason, I’ve been able to build an incredibly strong professional network that I know I can lean on if and when I need to." - Casey Renner

​Why now? - Lenny Rachitsky

Why it matters for startups to have a strong "why now"—and also why it doesn't.

​How to Work Hard - Paul Graham

One thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work very hard.

​Public Speaking for Introverts - Ann Handley

Public Speaking Lessons for the Introverts, the Inexperienced, the Pathologically Shy, and the Rusty in Need of a Refresh

​The Most Helpful Product Management Templates - Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny Rachitsky's list of personal favorite product management templates.

Marketer

​Engineering as marketing: How to grow your B2B company - Greenhouse

The most common examples include pricing calculators, widgets, basic apps, micro-sites, evaluation sites, chatbots, and research tools to help you with your acquisition funnel.

​How bad incentives ruin good marketing - Marketing week

Targeting narrow segments, regularly changing creative and constantly optimising campaigns are all antithetical to growth, yet they’re exactly what marketers are incentivised to do.

​7 Awful First Sentences That Are Killing Your Outreach Emails - Hubspot

The first sentences you should never use unless you want buyers to delete your emails.

​Comparing solution selling vs product selling in the modern sales world - Close

You can tell your prospects that your product is the best. But do you know how to answer if they ask you why?

​5 advanced-ish SEO tactics - TechCrunch

Start with best practices like making incredible content and securing backlinks to your best web pages, but also be willing to think a bit outside the box.

Interesting Read

​The Happiest Country Depends on Your Definition of Happiness - The Atlantic

Well-being is far from universal. Here are four models to help you understand the world—and your own mind.

​Eight Reasons We Reject Advice And How Behavioral Science Can Help Overcome Them - Forbes

Many people are advice-rejectors. If new information is uncomfortable or too difficult to accept, it tends to get ignored or just used to confirm, rather than adjust, the original perspective.

​Why Do People Believe the ‘Social Media is Mind Control’ Myth? - Nir and far

The evidence is overwhelming: we are far more powerful than the technology that is supposedly mind-controlling us. It’s not even close.

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