33: Which Color Should We Paint This Episode?

<p>In this episode, we discuss &quot;bikeshedding&quot; (also known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality">Law of Triviality</a>), the famous proposition that complex contributions and ideas (such as plans to build a nuclear power plant), often of high impact and importance, move forward with relatively little interference, whereas simple contributions and conversations (such as which color to paint a bikeshed) get caught up in committee and high-volume debate, and how this tends to impact FOSS communities. We do a (slightly dramatic) reading of the original email, hold a conversation about it, and then come back to the topic with a twist right after everyone (including ourselves) thought the episode was over.</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The original bikeshed email hosted at <a href="https://shed.bike/">shed.bike</a></p></li><li><p>But wait! Use <a href="https://bikeshed.org/">bikeshed.org</a> instead!</p></li><li><p>Wait! You should link to the <a href="https://white.bikeshed.org/">white background page</a>! No, the <a href="https://green.bikeshed.org/">green one</a>! No, <a href="https://blue.bikeshed.org/">blue</a>! No, <a href="https://purple.bikeshed.org/">purple</a>!</p></li><li><p><a href="http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/">Poul-Henning Kamp's page on the subject</a></p></li><li><p>But wait! <a href="https://www.quora.com/Hacker-Culture-Who-was-Brett-Glass-named-in-the-original-bikeshed-email">Brett Glass (and others) respond!</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/">yourlogicalfallacyis.com</a>, but be sure to read about <a href="https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy">The Fallacy Fallacy</a> before you start linking to these to try to win an argument on the internet</p></li></ul>