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Blank has developed what he calls a Customer-Development Process, based on the idea that startups should apply the scientific method just as scientists do: Start with a hypothesis, test it, and prove it—or move on to further iterations of the hypothesis if it proves incorrect.
Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
2017, Columbia University Press
NEO: I’ve kept quiet for as long as I could, but I feel a certain need to speak up at this point. The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any sort of food humans could eat, it would be more efficient to burn it in a furnace than feed it to humans. And now you’re telling me that their food is the bodies of the dead, fed to the living? Haven’t you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics?
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Whatever cannot obey itself, is commanded. Such is the nature of living things.