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Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters
by adolph 5y ago
Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters while leaving important matters unattended.
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding/ https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding/
- atoav 5y agoI would add that the aspect that makes bikeshedding so dangerous is not that those working on it suddenly spend a lot of time on the colour of the shed — the aspect that makes it dangerous is that everybody thinks they can/should weigh in and develope strong opinions about shed colours. The people working on the shed probably are the ones who most likely just want to get on with it.