
Law of triviality
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Oct 6, 2026
Melina Palmer 6 year anniversary of Fraudish!!!
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14:32Kelly PaxtonHOST
Absolutely do not do that.
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14:34Kelly PaxtonHOST
Um, so you've had some just amazing world-class guests and, um, I, I wanna say that, like, not only do you have the world-class guests like Cass Sunstein and, you know, um, many, many others, but you guys, I know when I first found Melina, like, one of my favorite terms is bike shedding.
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14:59Melina PalmerGUEST
Yeah.
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14:59Kelly PaxtonHOST
Do you wanna explain bike shedding to the audience? Because it is one of my favorite things.
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15:04Melina PalmerGUEST
Yeah.
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15:05Melina PalmerGUEST
So, uh, bike shedding is what I call productive procrastination.
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15:10Melina PalmerGUEST
Um, uh, uh, so... 'Cause the term is bike shedding.
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15:13Melina PalmerGUEST
It's also Parkinson's law of triviality, if you wanna use that.
Ep 211: Laws of the Universe
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56:34Andrew HawkinsHOST
Yeah.
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56:35Bob BorsonHOST
And then the last one of our 11 is Parkinson's law of triviality.
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56:44Bob BorsonHOST
And yes, it is the same Cyril Northcote Parkinson that we've already referenced earlier in the episode.
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56:50Andrew HawkinsHOST
Wow, this guy's got two.
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57:05Andrew HawkinsHOST
Yeah, I've never heard of this one either.
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57:06Bob BorsonHOST
This is my close second.
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57:08Bob BorsonHOST
So I got Hanlon's, and then I have Parkinson's law of triviality-
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57:12Andrew HawkinsHOST
Mm-hmm