“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
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What is Bikeshedding?
Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters while leaving important matters unattended.
Do you ever remember sitting in class and having a teacher get off track from a lesson plan? They may have spent a large portion of your biology class time telling you a personal story and skimmed over important scientific theory. In such an instance, your teacher may have been a victim of bikeshedding, where they spent too long discussing something minor and lost track of what was important. Even though it may have been more entertaining to listen to their story, it did not help you acquire important information.
Bikeshedding occurs because trivial tasks are easier to comprehend than more complex issues; consequently, we feel more comfortable working on and discussing the simple issue.
The term bikeshedding comes from Cyril Northcote Parkinson’s metaphorical example when he described the law of triviality. Parkinson was a British naval historian and is most commonly known for coming up with Parkinson’s law, which states that work expands to fill the time allocated to it. Parkinson’s law suggests that if you allocate an hour to a task that actually only takes 30 minutes, psychologically, the task ends up acquiring the complexity of an hour-long task.
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What is Bikeshedding?
Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters while leaving important matters unattended.
Do you ever remember sitting in class and having a teacher get off track from a lesson plan? They may have spent a large portion of your biology class time telling you a personal story and skimmed over important scientific theory. In such an instance, your teacher may have been a victim of bikeshedding, where they spent too long discussing something minor and lost track of what was important. Even though it may have been more entertaining to listen to their story, it did not help you acquire important information.
Bikeshedding occurs because trivial tasks are easier to comprehend than more complex issues; consequently, we feel more comfortable working on and discussing the simple issue.
The term bikeshedding comes from Cyril Northcote Parkinson’s metaphorical example when he described the law of triviality. Parkinson was a British naval historian and is most commonly known for coming up with Parkinson’s law, which states that work expands to fill the time allocated to it. Parkinson’s law suggests that if you allocate an hour to a task that actually only takes 30 minutes, psychologically, the task ends up acquiring the complexity of an hour-long task.
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Albert Camus
(November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960)
A period of intellectual awakening followed, accompanied by great enthusiasm for sport, especially football (soccer), swimming, and boxing. In 1930, however, the first of several severe attacks of tuberculosis put an end to his sporting career and interrupted his studies. Camus had to leave the unhealthy apartment that had been his home for 15 years, and, after a short period spent with an uncle, Camus decided to live on his own, supporting himself by a variety of jobs while registered as a philosophy student at the University of Algiers.
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(November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960)
A period of intellectual awakening followed, accompanied by great enthusiasm for sport, especially football (soccer), swimming, and boxing. In 1930, however, the first of several severe attacks of tuberculosis put an end to his sporting career and interrupted his studies. Camus had to leave the unhealthy apartment that had been his home for 15 years, and, after a short period spent with an uncle, Camus decided to live on his own, supporting himself by a variety of jobs while registered as a philosophy student at the University of Algiers.
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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
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“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
— The Fall
— The Fall
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