It's these tiny details, these minute, inconsequential decisions that, for Martine, would have such consequence.
The justices' reaction to all of that attention was to conduct business as usual, starting two of the arguments with the announcement of inconsequential decisions and then conducting the arguments themselves in characteristically informal fashion.
Such people, Miller said, describe the accumulation of "seemingly inconsequential decisions along the way" that lead people into ethical crises — something not all schools teach but that students entering the real world need.
Sometimes, companies invest unreasonable amounts of time in using data to drive inconsequential decisions or to study things that cannot be quantified.
Maybe not much, but then again, if we face hundreds of these inconsequential decisions every day or every week, when will we think about what matters?
People with this style (not narcissism, although that would be a good guess) prefer to see themselves as logical and rational, uninfluenced by emotion, and to think in abstract and intellectualized ways, as if emotions were irrelevant or inconsequential to decision making — when in fact they are essential to it.
A video blows up demonstrating a hilarious outcome all set in motion by seemingly inconsequential design decisions?
As inconsequential as their decision may seem, it got us thinking: today, building blocks, but tomorrow?
That design decision, although inconsequential for three decades, perhaps shortened the time that tenants and rescue workers had to evacuate the towers before they collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.
