Is it important for a death to be witnessed?

I watched my mother die.

I watched the fall of the twin towers on 9-11.

In neither case was I in control. I couldn't help. I couldn't even give comfort.

I could just watch.

And feel.

Did my watching and internalizing death change anything for the dying?

Yes.

Do you believe who we are is what we do? Is the mark we leave on the world? The lives we affect? Yeah? Then yes.

Death changes the witness. And so perpetuates the legacy, spreads and entrenches the dead person's meme.

So, do we have a responsibility to watch?

Are some deaths more worthy of witness than others?

Is witnessing death a stochastic process? Does witnessing a death change the perception and internalization for the next time? Perhaps heightening or deadening emotions and attention?  

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I love when you can explain your business in an elegant chart. Take a look at this one from Nanomix.

This 7k image is chock-full of information. It explains:

• How products emerge.
• The core activities and deliverables (and organizations? and talent mix?)  
• The rate of weeding out needed along the way.
• That the process stops at creating the new product. They don't bring new things to market. Suggesting marketing partners or customers.
• Key opportunities for productivity improvement (earlier in the cycle) 
• A basis for competitive comparison (how many ideas do you generate, how many designs can you model, what is your cost at each step)
• That computational design comes before lab work, different from how research was done only ten years' ago.  

The 1000-to-1 ratio is clearly hypothetical. But can't you see a quarterly report with real numbers and the funnels sized in proportion to the real levels of activity?

What's your business? Do you have a simple diagram that reveals your business at a high level?

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