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What does it mean?
Creating man was original; adding the sheep was a tautology.
In plain terms
Making humans was innovative, but adding sheep was redundant.
What can you take from it?
Some additions are unnecessary repetitions.

Where it applies

  • product design
  • policy making

Putting it to work

  • avoiding needless features
  • focusing on core purpose

Questions to consider

  • When does an addition become redundant?
  • How can we identify tautologies in projects?

Another view

Metaphor may be obscure to many readers.

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