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Card #c887IR // #c887Synthesis

“The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman SHALL BE the meaning of the earth! I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH, and believe not those who speak unto you of superearthly hopes!”

— In our words · Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)

[Use when]

When a plan sounds beautiful and changes nothing — drag it down to the earth and see what survives.

[Why it matters]

Every abstraction that cannot touch the ground is a poison — strategy decks, manifestos, five-year visions that never meet a user, a customer, a consequence. The test of any idea is whether it survives contact with the earth it claims to serve.

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