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The less important something is, the more time is spent on it. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality describes the tendency of organizations to focus on trivial issues at the expense of more complex issues. The law is attributed to British naval historian and author Cyril Northcote Parkinson, famous for the eponymous law of triviality, which states that work expands to fill the time allocated to it. When a topic is simple and easy to grasp, like a bike shed, we’ll tend to have an opinion on it and thus more about it.