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Empathy Is a Strategic Capacity

It enables worldbuilding where time and value are not yet fixed, providing a path to product–market fit before markets, metrics, or demand signals exist.
Christian Rishel

by Christian Rishel

Vincent van Gogh’s The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), showing a compassionate figure helping a wounded man onto a horse, rendered in expressive brushwork.
Detail, The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), 1890, by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands.
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