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by adwi 1777 days ago
Bikeshedding

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

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

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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