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The "Hal changes a light bulb" clip is a perfect example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
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Damn, you beat me to it 
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Artist has a cute webcomic called pepper & carrot, worth reading
This applies to a lot more than programming
I'm not sure I understand, but I think I might, can someone please verify?
Would this be like today, when I needed to scan and enter receipts in the office, but the office is also my craft room which is currently covered in tools and whatnot for my automatic chicken door project, which makes it a very visually disruptive environment for boring tasks like entering receipts, so I feel like I need to finish the chicken door and clean the room before I enter receipts?
but I worked on my computer OS struggles instead because that somehow seemed less difficult than tidying and data entry
Did I shave ~~an ox~~ a yak today?
If you had to fix your OS struggles in order to 3d print a part to finish the chicken door project before you could tidy the office, you'd be yak shaving. It's important that the task you're working on is, somehow, eventually, contributing to finishing the original task. At the point that you decided not to tidy, you ceased to be yak shaving.
Please post about your chicken door project when it's done
yeah a lot of yak shaving these days is tied with fixing fiddly OS issues on Linux that are plausibly annoying enough to be an obstacle to whatever you're trying to accomplish
I feel like I sort of wind up doing this a lot because someone says "Do this thing" without realising how much effort, set up, and pack down "thing" is, and I don't want to bark up the wrong chain so I start this long laborious process, when what they really wanted me to do was do this thing in 1/20th the time and please be available for other tasks this week.
:yea: