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Stripe Apps Marketplace open for all developers

2022-12-19

We reached an important milestone for Stripe Apps last week: the marketplace is now open for all developers!

Expanding the ability to publish apps into the Marketplace has been a top focus for the team since the summer. I’m particularly passionate about this launch because I think the promise of Stripe Apps is best realized in the niches — developers making products for merchants with specific needs that will only be possible if anyone in the world is allowed to bring their creativity to bear on the problem.

I’m excited to see where this one goes!

Congratulations, Argentina!

2022-12-18

Congratulations to Argentina and Lionel Messi on winning the World Cup. Thrilling game.

I saw Messi play in person in 2019 and it remains one of the three most impressive in person sporting performances I’ve ever seen. What I’ll remember most about watching the game, besides the atmosphere was how different Messi was in person.

He sat the first half of the game and then came in for the second half. Everyone else on the field was a football player; he was a great white shark. He scored the game’s only goal and was so business like about it. It felt like he could’ve scored it whenever he wanted and chose to do it then and not to do it again so as not to show up his opponents. I’m glad that guy has won a World Cup.

India/China facts of the day

2022-12-14

India is going surpass China as the most populous country in the world next year, according to Pew Research. China’s population is expected to decline by 46% by 2100 according to the UN’s middle of the road projection.

The population cliff ahead of China is astounding. And a fact that has been true all my life (China is the most populous country in the world) isn’t true any longer.

American expectations

2022-12-13

In the United States, 39% of adults say they believe “we are living in the end times,” while 58% say they do not believe we are living in the end times, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

Christians are divided on this question, with 47% saying we are living in the end times, including majorities in the historically Black (76%) and evangelical (63%) Protestant traditions.

From Pew Research. I wonder what the trend line is like here.