https://developer.squareup.com/blog/ecosystem-success-metrics/
For each individual product, there are focused success metrics to prioritize for different product milestones (e.g. free trial starts, first revenue event, etc).
However, for shared spaces such as our public web page (squareup.com), our general web signup flow, and our internal seller dashboard, we often have to make decisions that involve a tradeoff between different products. For example, during onboarding, we can suggest certain products over others, so the question becomes: how do we prioritize them? What is our criteria for making tough decisions between products? How do we measure the impact of a specific change to the overall ecosystem? Our strategy is to get the right fit for sellers - but there are many different ways to measure this with different pros and cons. Let's take a look at some possible ecosystem success metric approaches:
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27 April, 2023
23 April, 2023
u/toketsupuurin on trauma baggage
Getting past baggage can be both impossible and stupidly easy all at the same time.
The thing about trauma baggage is that you carry it around partly as a coping mechanism. You brain says "no! You can't let this happen again! You have to remember! You have to do these things! You have to be safe!"
As you work through the healing process you start to unpack those bags and they get lighter and lighter. But you have to deal with them every day and the change is so slow that you don't notice. You just keep thinking "these bags are so heavy and they make me miserable. I hate carrying them."
Eventually you hit a point where the bags are unpacked. Everything has been handled. You are, effectively healed. You have scars, true, but you're recovered. The problem is that by this point carrying those bags is a habit. Your brain thinks you need them. You've defined yourself by these bags for so long that it feels like they're a part of you. You've defined yourself as a victim of trauma and made those bags part of your identity.
The very last step in healing is to put the bags away in the closet and recognize that you don't need to drag them around anymore. They should no longer define you, and you no longer want them to.
Some people never figure this out. They spend their entire life collecting luggage to drag around with them, because it's who they decided to be.
Some people learn to do it through therapy. They practice putting the bags down and going out for the day without them. One day they realize that they haven't picked the bags up in a month.
And some people are like OP. Something happens in their life, and they take stock of themselves. And then they see that they've been dragging around an empty bag that they no longer need. So they just set it down and abandon it.
You can't get rid of baggage until it's empty. It will absolutely crop up if you don't deal with it. But if you have actually dealt with it, it can be the easiest thing in the world to toss the empty bag. The tricky part is recognizing that it's empty and you don't need it anymore.
12 April, 2023
u/lightiggy on Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
I genuinely believe that this man is one of the greatest Americans in this entire country's dark history. He is up there with John Brown. I will not give you a summary.
Instead, I will give you Ferencz's entire life story.
Ferencz wasn’t a prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal, the trial which everyone knows about. Instead, he was a chief prosecutor at one of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials.
The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials were a series of major war crimes trials conducted after the International Military Tribunal. There were differences between the two.
The Nuremberg Trials which people know about were conducted by an international tribunal consisting of Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials were conducted exclusively by the United States.
There had been plans for more international trials, but worsening relations between the West and the East made that impossible. However, the major Allied powers agreed that they were still obligated to prosecute suspected war criminals in their respective occupation zones of Germany.
Now, some people know that many war criminals were treated leniently, ignored, or even outright protected for political or other reasons. That said, there were still hundreds of trials conducted against thousands of defendants.
The British conducted most of their minor war crimes trials in Hamburg, the French in Rastatt, the Americans on the grounds of the former Dachau concentration camp (they found that the prison bunker was convenient for housing suspects), and the Soviets in various parts of Eastern Germany.
Shortly after the international tribunal issued its verdicts, the U.S. high command established the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes (OCCWC), a war crimes investigation team. The OCCWC was instructed to prepare major war crimes trials in the American occupation zone.
The likes of Dachau Trials handled mostly concentration camp guards and soldiers who murdered POWs. Sometimes, more important war criminals were tried in those trials.
The OCCWC was different; their sole purpose was to pursue those more important war criminals. They were supposed to pursue of the more important people who'd managed to avoid prosecution in the likes of the Dachau Trials.
At the time, Ferencz was a nobody. The only thing special about him was his height.
09 April, 2023
Sunset: Hunkering down for the winter!
At exactly 90° South latitude, the sun rotates in a near-perfect counterclockwise circle around the sky. There is no difference whatsoever between “night” and “day”. On any given day, 2pm looks the same as 2am. The sun is at the same height, just in a different part of the sky.
The sun reaches its highest point in the sky, about 23.5° above the horizon, around the December Solstice (December 21).
After the sun reaches its peak, it begins to set. It’s still rotating in perfect circles around the sky; they’re just getting lower and lower each day.
The Masters Tournament At Augusta Is Leaving $269 Million On The Putting Green
Augusta has just six sponsors—AT&T, Delta, IBM, Mercedes Benz, Rolex and UPS—which split a minimalistic four minutes of commercial time per hour of event coverage. Most of the sponsorship money goes directly to Augusta’s media partners, CBS and ESPN, to cover the cost of production, with the rest going to pay to host hospitality events for VIP patrons. Given that the U.S. Open generates at least $15 million per year in sponsorship revenue, it is safe to assume that the Masters could pull in at least $20 million, thanks to its much higher TV viewership.
The Masters generates no domestic TV revenue because its agreements with CBS and ESPN allow Augusta complete control of the broadcast in exchange for no compensation. In comparison, the USGA receives $93 million per year from NBC to air the U.S. Open. Lee Berke, who runs consulting firm LHB Sports, Entertainment and Media, said that Augusta could command $100 million or more if the club were ever to fully commercialize and auction its domestic media rights.
08 April, 2023
u/GruntMarine's 9/11 poem
9/11 MASQUERADE. A poem, by me
We came from all aroundPledged allegiance with resound
And gave to Uncle Sam our rights away
A soldier corps
Built just for war
With ranks of those
Who yearned for more
Were drilled and taught to kill both night and day
We stood in line
Time after time
Were stripped of thoughts
Issued a mind
And told to hate and who to hate as well
As time went on
It wasn’t long
All childhood innocence
Was gone
We new recruits bought all that they could sell
/u/breckenridgeback on technical advances
There were, broadly, roughly eight major turning points in that time. Most of them didn't involve any fundamentally new idea - they just used the advancements going on in the background to make a new thing work. And since those advancements became more and more enabled by each progressive step, so too were we able to make more and more things work.
The first was language, around 60,000 to 100,000 years ago....
07 April, 2023
When My Father Got Alzheimer’s, I Had to Learn to Lie to Him
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/opinion/alzheimers-dementia-lying.html
When my father was declining from Alzheimer’s disease, one of the things my siblings and I used to argue about was whether to correct his confusions.
For example, my father, in his impaired state, expected his live-in aide to work for room and board and would lash out at her (and us) whenever he learned that she had been paid. My siblings tended to think that it was fine to lie to him about matters like this if it helped him (and us) get through one of his rancorous moods.
I fought against this practice as a matter of principle. As a doctor, I had seen how even well-meaning deception, such as withholding bad news, could be damaging. To me, a healthy relationship with our father, even in his debilitated state, could be based only on truth and trust. Small lies, even if told with the best of intentions, would undermine his dignity and erode what little connection we had left with him.
As it happens, the disagreement between me and my siblings mirrored a larger debate in the medical community over the past few decades about how best to treat dementia patients. Should the ethical demands of truth-telling give way to the everyday needs of dementia care? Or is telling the truth always the best way to uphold the dignity of patients and serve their mental health?
06 April, 2023
A Good Friday funeral in Texas. Baby Halo's parents had few choices in post-Roe Texas
Her name was Halo, and she was born last week, on March 29, two months early and weighing 3 pounds. She lived for four hours, dying in the arms of her father, Luis Villasana.
Her mother, Samantha Casiano, knew their baby wouldn't survive long because she had anencephaly – part of Halo's brain and skull never developed.
Now, they can't afford to give their newborn daughter the funeral they would like to give her.
‘He’s a war criminal’: Elite Putin security officer defects
LONDON -- On Oct. 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with his wife and daughter. He switched off his phone to shut out the crescendo of urgent, enraged messages, said goodbye to his life in Russia and tried to calm his fast-beating heart.
But this was no ordinary Russian defector. Karakulov was an officer in President Vladimir Putin’s secretive elite personal security service — one of the few Russians to flee and go public who have rank, as well as knowledge of intimate details of Putin’s life and potentially classified information.
Karakulov, who was responsible for secure communications, said moral opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his fear of dying there drove him to speak out, despite the risks to himself and his family. He said he hoped to inspire other Russians to speak out also.
“Our president has become a war criminal,” he said. “It is time to end this war and stop being silent.”
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