A list of terminologies to throw around while speaking (usually about people's behaviour)

fancy_terminology.txt

nirvana fallacy, perfect solution fallacy
bicycle-shed effect, bike-shed effect, bike-shedding, Parkinson's law of triviality
supernormal stimulus, superstimulus
broken windows theory
tragedy of the commons
dunning-kruger effect
imposter syndrome: a psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud
strawman argument fallacy, when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way: and then attacks the extreme distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is making
yak shaving: Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem
flog a dead horse: waste energy on a lost cause or a situation that cannot be changed
sunk-cost fallacy: the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it
Ivory tower: An ivory tower is a metaphorical place—or an atmosphere—where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world in favor of their own pursuits, usually mental and esoteric ones.