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The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. [1] Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what ...
This "bicycle shed effect" is easily explained: true expertise on nuclear plants is rare, while everybody can have a say about bicycle sheds, and refreshments are clear and dear to all. Sadly, the "bicycle shed effect" can be noted on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and theoretically every Wikipedian is working to build it.
Dodge Street splits into two streets that are Route 6, Dodge and Douglas. Dunlop Avenue: The main street of Omaha's Frenchtown. Ed Creighton Avenue: Starts at 32nd Avenue and ends when it hits the Interstate 480. F Street: Farnam Street Originally the main street of Omaha, it branches off of Dodge Street and goes east until it hits Eighth Street.
The WoodmenLife Tower (formerly the Woodmen Tower or Woodmen of the World Tower) is a 478.02 feet (145.70 m) high-rise building at 1700 Farnam Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and headquarters of WoodmenLife (officially Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society) insurance company. Construction of the building began in 1966 and was ...
Farnams Village Historic District is a historic district in Cheshire, Massachusetts, United States.It encompasses the historic limestone mining community known as Farnams Village and the associated surviving industrial and mining infrastructure associated with a mining operation active from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century.
Dunning–Kruger effect – Cognitive bias about one's own skill; Erikson's stages of psychosocial development – Eight-stage model of psychoanalytic development; Flow – Full immersion in an activity; Formula for change; Illusory superiority – Cognitive bias; Immunity to change – Method of self-reflection and mindset change
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The Nash Block was composed of two identical warehouse buildings, built in 1905 for one of Omaha's wealthy elite, Catherine B. Nash. Thomas R. Kimball designed the building as the first factory-warehouse in Omaha with the modern fire protection elements, including brick enclosures for stairs and elevators, fireproof doors and an automatic sprinkler system.