How To Avoid Bike-shedding

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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…