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How small your pieces of truth are before you start lying by omission.
means The level of fine detail or coarseness at which something is measured, described, or broken into parts.
from From 'granular,' meaning made of grains, rooted in Latin 'granum' — a grain or seed. The word stayed mostly literal (sugar, sand, texture) until the 20th century, when technical and business English grabbed it to describe how fine-grained data, control, or detail could get — zooming from 'the whole pile' down to 'each individual grain.'
- etymology
- from grain, literally particle size
- tradeoff
- more detail costs more storage and attention
- misuse
- people say it to sound precise while being vague
- sweet spot
- fine enough to act, coarse enough to understand