Wednesday Phrase: Yak-shaving
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1word1dayYak-shaving
Today's phrase is so delightful that I couldn't resist sharing it.
Coined at MIT by Carlin Vieri about 22 years ago, yak-shaving is defined as:
You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what
you're supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you're doing to the original meta-task.
In the case of myself on Sunday, a number of tasks waylaid me from completing my original task in a timely manner. And, in an old blog post, Seth Godin warns against giving the yak a manicure :-D
Watch out for those yaks!
Today's phrase is so delightful that I couldn't resist sharing it.
Coined at MIT by Carlin Vieri about 22 years ago, yak-shaving is defined as:
You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what
you're supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you're doing to the original meta-task.
In the case of myself on Sunday, a number of tasks waylaid me from completing my original task in a timely manner. And, in an old blog post, Seth Godin warns against giving the yak a manicure :-D
Watch out for those yaks!
By Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
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Date: 2022-09-22 02:49 pm (UTC)Nice yak pic.
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Date: 2022-09-25 04:59 pm (UTC)