yak shaving

yak shaving
a) 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.

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

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


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