[throwaway0a5e]

I absolutely hate these sorts of "take a broad generalization, blindly run with it to extremes then pontificate about edge cases in where it breaks" articles. They accomplish little but to indulge online commenters desire to engage in behavior that runs the spectrum from bike shedding to virtue signaling. Of course everyone has a bone to pic with some specific part of the article. Of course everyone wants to elaborate their anecdotal examples. This article was written to facilitate just those things. This is a trash tabloid article for people who think they are too good to read trash tabloid articles.

[adwi]

Bikeshedding

> 1. Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues. quotations 2. Procrastination.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

[anm89]

This misses the essence of bike shedding to me. It can be a sub category of procrastination but it isn't procrastination itself.

My take is that bike shedding is focusing on and possibly inventing a task because you enjoy that task, at the expense of something else more pressing.

I find that the anecdote is useful occasional to bring it up when it is happening without seeming like a jerk