"A less well-known but equally spot-on dictum, also outlined in his book Parkinson’s Law, is the Law of Triviality, which he illustrates with an imaginary tale in which a firm’s executives meet to discuss two new projects: an atomic reactor and a company bike shed. **The reactor is complex and bewilderingly expensive, and non-experts risk embarrassment if they speak up, so it gets approved in two and a half minutes**. But everyone knows about bikes and bike sheds, and everyone has an opinion. **The bike shed, Parkinson writes, ‘will be debated for an hour and a quarter, then deferred for decision to the next meeting, pending the gathering of more information**’." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[law-of-triviality]], [[making-decisions]], [[ego]], [[crucial-conversations]], [[colour-of-the-bike-shed-phenomenon]] **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]