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The view where details go to be forgiven.
means The overall situation or long-term outcome, considered as a whole rather than getting lost in individual details.
from A 20th-century extension of 'picture' meaning 'a mental image or representation of a situation' — the same sense behind phrases like 'get the picture' or 'the whole picture.' 'Big picture' emerged as a figure of speech contrasting the sweeping view with small, distracting details, and by the mid-1900s had become a fixture of business and strategy talk — the boardroom's way of saying 'zoom out.'
- favorite habitat
- strategy meetings, right before budget cuts
- common user
- people who skipped the fine print
- side effect
- zooming out until problems look optional
- true purpose
- making small mistakes feel like minor pixels