#minutiae — Public Fediverse posts

Me: It smells like someone in middle #management wants a #dashboard that will let them #nitpick their way into the good graces of their superiors by finding and bothering people who are out of #compliance on work tracking #minutiae. Of course us worker bees don't actually know where the #goalposts are, so I'll assume that they shift arbitrarily.

Boss: Well it's not *middle* management...

Me: Oh. Oh that's worse. That is so much worse.

They page through the minutiae in the “Notes and Appendices to the U.S. Budget,” sifting the “Detailed Budget Estimates by Agency” section until they come up with something like the Department of the Interior’s Helium Fund. In the natur #budget #resources #water #people #minutiae

“How do we know any damned thing? Chaos is our language; our own eccentric rhythms are unsynchronized to Cosmos—with a mildewed ear for the brassy cacophony of imaginary menageries dissonant to each other; and it all ends drooling over minutiae to discover oneself.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/01/21/how-do-we-know-any-damned-thing-chaos-is-our-language-our-own-eccentric-rhythms-are-unsynchronized-to-cosmos-with-a-mildewed-ear-for-the-brassy-cacophony-of-imaginary-menageries-dissonant/

#all #any #AustinOsmanSpare #book #brassyCacophony #chaos #cosmos #damnedThing #discover #dissonant #drooling #eachOther #eccentricRhythms #ends #how #imaginaryMenageries #know #language #mildewedEar #minutiae #oneself #ourOwn #quote #TheLogomachyOfZos #unsynchronized

Is anyone else using the #minutiae app?
I know I am late to the party, but I love the rules and structure around this project which makes me feel I am more likely to participate in it.

With a "do X every day" thing that involves a creative act, my perfectionist brain takes over. Selfie a day makes me worry about making it the *best* selfie I could take that day. Same with one second of video a day. Minutiae removes this from my control & gives me permission to be less-than-perfect.