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**FORCE** is the darker side of FORGE. We use it when we unyieldingly pursue an idealistic plan instead of making edits and concessions. Getting every detail right is one thing, but unadaptable perfectionists deny a gravity-like law of order: order never embraces the new without compromise. The closer we move to launch, the more we must trim and bend our invention or model to meet reality as it is, not how we wish it were. If we don’t bend a little, we risk meeting stony indifference or hostility from the people and systems who like things the way they are.

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