Eva Moskowitz

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

American Educator

Nick Harkaway

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.

English Novelist

Karl Iagnemma

There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight vehicles and granular soils of varying composition, it's a very complex modeling process.

American Writer

Wil Wheaton

To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.

American Actor

Travis Knight

Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better at the big picture over the years.

American Producer

Thomas Chatterton Williams

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.

American Critic

Mark Zuckerberg

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

American Businessman

Billy Beane

Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.

American Athlete

Gad Saad

The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.

Canadian Scientist

Henry Gray

The entire substance of the spleen at an early period is almost entirely composed of nuclei and granular matter.

English Scientist

Think of textures that are visibly coarse, like sand. 'Granular' often describes similar textures.

Visual Texture

Items like sugar, salt, or sand that you can sprinkle or pour are often described as granular.

Physical Characteristics

'Granular' can be used metaphorically to mean 'in small pieces' or 'not smooth'.

Not Always Literal

'Granular' in computing means breaking down information into fine details for better analysis.

Detailed Analysis

In tech, 'granular' suggests precise control over settings and permissions.

Control Precision

Sometimes, 'granular' implies there may be more detail than necessary, which can be overwhelming.

Overwhelming Detail

'Granular' in science refers to surfaces or structures that are visibly grainy or speckled.

Visible Particles

Use 'granular' to describe something that shows its grainy quality when viewed up close.

Microscopic View

 and that bothers me. And this is so deep-seated in our psyche that when we're presented with a progress bar and presented with easy, granular steps to take to try and complete that progress bar, we will do it. We will find a way to move that blue line all the way to the right edge of the screen. This is used in conventional games as well.

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 how long they've spent each day, what videos they've watched, when did they pause the videos, what did they stop watching, what exercises are they using, what have they focused on? The outer circle shows what exercises they were focused on. The inner circle shows the videos they're focused on. The data gets pretty granular,

Let's use video to...

 and this is this is so deep-seated in our psyche that when were presented with a progress bar and presented with easy granular steps to take to try and complete that progress bar we will do it we will find a way to move that blue line all the way to the right edge of the screen this is used in conventional

The game layer on top of...

 The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing, but the smallest measure, the moment, has shrunk. It has shrunk because our instruments enable us in part to measure smaller and smaller units of time, and this in turn has given us a more granular understanding

Abha Dawesar: Life in...

 there's actually a single volume that's missing. We had to get more granular than that, though, and so we had to start opening those books, and in some cases, the genetic change was more subtle. It might have been a single paragraph that was missing, or yet, even more subtle than that,

Autism — what we know...

 out there and how they can deal with their emotions the most important thing we know you know spoke about instead of saying I am said you noticing that you feeling said another very very important part of being effective with our emotions is being granular with our

How to be your best self...

 as he for a healthy ecosystem, we need both birds and frogs. Frogs are down in the mud, seeing all the granular details. The birds are soaring up above not seeing those details but integrating the knowledge of the frogs. And we need both. The problem, Dyson said,

Why specializing early...

 to this holographic computer on my head, machines are becoming capable of understanding our world. And they are starting to interact with us in significantly more personal ways. Now, imagine having granular control over everything in the world.

The dawn of the age of...

 we want to do this differently and the brief was to make it different raw hostile that's the term we came up with visceral granular truth and rather than not sugar-coated because that's a bit unfair and judgmental but or pejorative

Compelling Models for...

 And so this is what I want to emphasize that, as you can imagine, all of these tricks are made of submovements, executive motor functions, more granular to the degree to which I can't quite tell you, but one thing I do know is,