# Bike shedding Created On: 02-10-2023 11:17 am Up:: [[Concepts (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: --- Bike shedding, which is associated with the [[Law of triviality]], speaks to the weight that people and organizations place on trivial areas. In general, these trivial areas tend to be ones that most people are familiar with or that they can more directly relate to. Oftentimes, this is **not** a good thing in that a group ends up investing time and energy in the wrong, or trivial, areas. The traditional story is that when making plans for the construction of a nuclear power plant, the majority of the dialogue of the planning was heavily weighted towards the design of a bike shed for employees instead of the nuclear power plant itself.