Our brains love the status quo because the subconscious (which makes 95 percent of all decisions) bases its choices on rules of thumb for what has worked in the past. This desire to keep things ...

We’re all familiar with Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. But author and historian C. Northcote Parkinson added a similar, lesser-known lesson, dubbed the ...

Kenya’s policymaking landscape is often plagued by “bikeshedding,” also known as Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. This phenomenon describes the tendency to dwell on minor issues while neglecting ...

I have been tasked with teaching other teams a new codebase, but I keep running into an issue. Whenever I go to actually walk through the code with people, we don’t get very far before the entire ...