Going through our weekly macro exercise (dissecting every separate data point) this morning I was reminded of a quote I highlighted in Steven Strogatz captivating (well, so far, just started reading it) Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe.
“To shed light on any continuous shape, object, motion, process, or phenomenon—no matter how wild and complicated it may appear—reimagine it as an infinite series of simpler parts, analyze those, and then add the results back together to make sense of the original whole.”