The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits is a great book on this topic.
It makes a great argument that, unfortunately, merit based admission to elite universities does nothing to increase equality of opportunity because the rich are so much better at training and educating their children.
The upside is that people are forced to earn their privilege with hard work and study, rather than having it handed to them at birth. The downside is that there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, privilege begets more work, which begets more material wealth, which begets yet harder work / overachieving children.
Scratch your own itch. Solving a problem you have will motivate you, but more importantly it’s the only way to be able to navigate through a problem space.
Without being the customer you will have so much trouble coming up with solutions to problems people are willing to pay to solve.
Sawyer from EasyPost here. Yes, we're generally upstream of Shippo - we power a bunch of their competitors in the app / shipping UI space. We focus more on developer APIs and all of the tools and performance considerations that come with that.
Our UI developers are focused mainly on analytics for the platform - we're happy to leave the click n' ship piece to Shipstation, ShipRush, Shippo, etc.
Yes, most carriers will assign a unique tracking code (and shipping label) to each shipment in the order, and also a "master" tracking code for the entire order. Depending on who the recipient is they may want to watch the entire order from the single master tracking code, or keep an eye on each individual shipment.
It's not common, but sometimes individual shipments / parcels get separated from their orders in transit, so it can be helpful to have the individual tracking codes.
This is not a company where micro-aggressions will fly.
This seems like such a toxic philosophy to me. One of the worst things you can do for a workplace is stifle honest conversation and criticism, and this focus on not "micro-aggressing" will do just that - the way it has in colleges over the last few years.
drop me a line at my name @ easypost if you want a hand looking into some of the shipping options - I think it's amazing that you guys are offering this a few hours after the announcement!
Hi ck, we take care of the whole insurance process from purchasing it to dealing with claims.
You'd buy your shipping labels and insurance through the EasyPost API; and if you ever need to make a claim you just email us the details and we take care of the rest!
Great example of how to make seculars feel like religious people when confronted with science; and actually quite educational! I had no idea wood smoke was harmful, but am now glad the fireplace in my living room is gas, heh.
Hehe, I have a recent relevant experience with this topic:
I just finished a simple gift certificate purchase page[1] for a client where I attempted to cut out all unnecessary details; the client's immediate response? "Looks good, but can we add some more fields like name, address, and security code to make it look more 'official'".
Edit: I don't necessarily disagree with their intuition; I think some consumers might actually be suspicious of a sparse payment form but I don't have any hard data.