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#1·3h ago
Wasting disproportionate time debating trivial details (button colors, variable names) while ignoring the hard, important parts of a project.
"The team spent two hours bikeshedding the error message wording."
Origin: Parkinson's Law of Triviality — easier to argue about a bike shed than a nuclear reactor.
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