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bikeshedding

Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
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dogfooding

toast

yak shaving

Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.
A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
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-test
+'''bikeshedding'''
+* Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
+* [https://fs.blog/bikeshed-effect/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]
+'''dogfooding'''
+* the practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]
+'''toast'''
+* a unit of distance exactly equal to one toast
+'''yak shaving'''
+* Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.
+* A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
+* [https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]