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Next time I need to explain what bikeshedding is I'm just going to point to this article.
TIL about Law Of Triviality, thanks!
Thanks for the link. God we do this all the time at work. I didn't know it had a name.
Everyone wants to contribute. Big things are scary and have the attention of the most senior staff. When a small thing hits the table, everyone has input and isn't afraid of looking stupid or getting called out when they feel ways about, say, the look of a company directory.
When big issues are on the table, they wait for the subject matter experts to chime in and contribute little for fear of getting getting called out for being trivial.
Always felt like there was middle ground there that was never tread.