minutiae

“He got stuck in the minutiae and sucked into these peripheral things,” said the person, who declined to be named.

I spoke with Buddha just after his win last year and he referenced how it can be so great to singularly focus on cooking — not bills, not customers, not the daily minutiae of running or working in restaurants, etcetera/

Under Redick, the team and organization has been committed to the kinds of minutiae that he values.

Of course I want to stay informed, but sometimes after a long day of absorbing the minutiae of the Mark Robinson controversy, which is evolving at a truly breakneck speed, or back-to-back clips of JD Vance lying about immigrants eating pets, sometimes you just want to decompress in a world where “tragedy” means jam that won’t thicken or a pie with a soggy bottom.

Post-it Notes, meanwhile, symbolize the minutiae of modern life, from Carrie Bradshaw’s infamous Post-it breakup in “Sex and the City” to the near-constant use of sticky notes as visual shorthand for cluttered thoughts and overwhelmed minds in films and TV shows.