Parkinson's law of triviality

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Disproportionate time is spent on trivial issues.

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Groups can spend disproportionate effort on familiar low-stakes details while giving complex high-stakes matters less scrutiny.

Practical example: A steering group approves a major architecture quickly, then debates a button label for an hour.

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