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Connect contribution to direct impact visibility by creating

Connect contribution to direct impact visibility by creating opportunities to see the specific people or outcomes your effort serves, because visible beneficiaries transform tedious tasks into purposeful ones independent of task content.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Goals as Perceptual Filters (goals function as perceptual filters) and Global-to-Local Perceptual Processing (perception processes global before local). The principle explains how to engineer purpose into existing work: make beneficiaries visible. Grant's fundraiser study demonstrates. Actionable design principle.