How To Avoid Bike-shedding
2 min readMay 8, 2023
I have a weird relationship with productivity.
By weird, I mean that I often spend way too much time being “productive” on the wrong things.
It turns out that there’s a name for this. It’s called Bike-Shedding.
The Decision Lab states that, “Bike-shedding, also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our…