The unmistakable vibe in a room — or Slack channel — when everyone has mentally checked out of the actual problem and redirected their focus to something safe, small, and solvable. Bikeshedding energy is thick when the meeting is about whether the button should say 'Submit' or 'Send,' the doc comments section is longer than the doc itself, or someone asks to revisit the team name for the fourth time. It's a collective comfort behavior — debate the easy thing, defer the hard one.
Whole team had bikeshedding energy on the call — forty minutes on the subject line, nothing on the actual pitch.
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