Yak Shaving is spending time on related tasks that distract you from your initial goal. I have been very aware of me having this issue lately. I’m constantly procrastinating by working on this that seem important for what I’m doing in the moment, but in reality I’m not making any progress towards my real goal.
Related to 🚲 Bikeshedding.
A good example is me working on a side-project and considering to switch 🏃 JavaScript Runtimes because I found a new tool to find unused code. Nothing about this was relevant to the goal of the project itself, but I felt like I was working doing something ‘important’ nonetheless.