Surf Report: The Bikeshed

Issue 42: 07.11.2021 (Subscribers Edition)

INTRODUCTION

July 11, 2021

Hi everyone—I’m so glad to have you here. What a week.

Have you ever heard of bikeshedding?

It’s a term that was coined as a metaphor to illustrate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, a 1957 argument stating that people within an organization typically give disproportionate weight, time, and attention to trivial issues.

“Parkinson pro…