sawyer

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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 9 years ago
The article ends with: "It doesn’t mean it has an evolutionary basis."

If not evolution, then what? Doesn't all behavior have an evolutionary basis?

Comment · 10 years ago
We have a tracking analytics API for this at EasyPost that'll do the analysis - feel free to reach out to me for the details: my username at easypost.
Comment · 10 years ago
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.

Comment · 10 years ago
My gut is that this product will add more noise than signal to the process.
Comment · 10 years ago
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.

Comment · 10 years ago
It'll probably depend a lot on marketing, and how much Uber and others spend to grow the market.

Same-day delivery's already provided pretty economically by the regional carriers (think Ontrac), but it's never been a huge market.

Comment · 10 years ago
We offer all three (Postmates, Deliv, and Uber) at EasyPost if you want to test them out with only one API integration.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
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.

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