yak shaving

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The actually useless activity you do that appears important when you are consciously or unconsciously procrastinating about a larger problem

I thought I'd get more work done if I just fixed a problem with my .emacs file, but then I spent the whole afternoon yak shaving.

Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off.

yak shaving

    الواصلة

    yak sha·ving

    التركية النطق

    yäk şeyvîng

    النطق

    /ˈyak ˈsʜāvəɴɢ/ /ˈjæk ˈʃeɪvɪŋ/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    () Uncertain, probably coined by Carlin Vieri in his time at the MIT AI Lab (1993-8)Brown, Jeremy (2000-02-11). "." URL accessed on 2010-06-16. , based on an episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show.
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