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Organization
Law of Triviality
Cognitive Ease — the bike-shed problem.
The article
If
People provide more feedback on simple things (naming variables) than complex things (distributed consensus) because everyone understands the simple things, creating a false sense of value.
Then
“If a PR review spends 80% of comments on style/naming, approve immediately and move the discussion to an automated linter config.”
Unless
Core Value Focus
Source
C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration (Houghton Mifflin, 1957), in the chapter "High Finance, or the Point of Vanishing Interest" — the original bike-shed committee parable. Published in the UK as Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (John Murray, 1958).
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