Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute. The deal is similar in length and scope to the one SpaceX announced with Anthropic in late May. (more)

Macy Meyer: AI Data Centers: What to Know About Their Water and Energy Use. When people find out I’m a journalist who covers AI, they often ask about the drastic energy consumption of AI data centers. Are these centers using up all of our drinking water? (more)

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. This story is a part of MIT Technology Review’s series “Power Hungry: AI and our energy future,” on the energy demands and carbon costs of the artificial-intelligence revolution. (more)

place to put a Hosted Server (more)

Chaos Magick had its inception in the late 1970s when Pete Carroll began to meld together elements of Golden Dawn ceremonial magick, Thelema, Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism in his articles for the magickal journal, The New Equinox. The inspiration for this synthesis was the work of the obscure, early twentieth-century artist and sorcerer Austin Osman Spare. Spare had developed what he called the technique of SentientLetters. Pete Carroll reformed the technique, and the sentient letters were recast as 'sigils'; they became the basis of a system which aimed to generate results through the application of undogmatic magickal technique. http://www.barbelith.com/cgi-bin/articles/00000004.shtml (more)

Cedric Chin: Much Ado About The OODA Loop. Any discussion about fast adaptation in response to uncertainty should probably begin with John Boyd and the OODA Loop. (more)

Chet Richards reviews Frans Osinga's Science, Strategy, and War ISBN:0415371031 book about John Boyd. Where Carl von Clausewitz and practically every strategist since considered war as a clash of wills, Boyd sees it as “the non-linear clash of two Complex Adaptive Systems” (124). In Boyd’s scheme, this is equivalent to a non-linear clash between two learning, or equivalently, novelty-generating systems, although it should be noted that Boyd rarely uses the term "system." (more)

Ash Maurya: The Backstory Behind Customer Forces Stories. Good customer / problem discovery is key to achieving problem/solution fit. (more)

The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you - Rob Fitzpatrick (more)

Ash Maurya: The Art of the Demo. Thinking you need a working product (or prototype) to make a sale is a common myth in the product world. (more)

Ash Maurya: Sell before you build. (more)

Demo, Sell, Build - Ash Maurya's recommendation for order of startup actions

JTBD Timeline - sequence of events leading to (and following) the customer's purchase of your product (or an existing alternative) (more)

Cedric Chin: Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice. Much has already been written about the interview method, but I thought it would be useful to describe what we’ve learnt from doing it. This includes things that we struggled with, things we found oddly tricky, and things that we wished someone had told us earlier. (more)

Part of Customer Development process, interviewing people in candidate Market Segment-s to confirm your understanding of key customer problems. (more)

Ash Maurya book on Lean Startup process. 3rd edition (2022) ISBN:1098108779 https://www.leanfoundry.com/books/running-lean (more)

Marketing term from Crossing The Chasm (more)

Ash Maurya: Position Against Your True Competition to Win the Customer. (more)

Positioning book by April Dunford ISBN:1999023005 https://www.aprildunford.com/obviously-awesome (more)

Will you (the Founder) be happy serving your warm-niche/ideal-customer for years and years? (more)