I love yak shaving. They seem to appreciate it so much. ;) Truth is, Donald Knuth, the “Patron Saint of Yak Shaving” having invented TeX (later LaTeX) to typeset a single book, The Art of Computing all those ump-teen years ago. Thank God he did. Modern publishing has been revolutionized because of it.
“Shaving the yak” means different things to different people, to people I like and agree with it means discovering something revolutionary while indirectly trying to get something else accomplished. I like this point of view because I do it all the fucking time. Here’s a list of my own personal yak shaves:
zet, et al.yt,twitch,iam,topic,twitter,gh)This is mostly a place to keep track of all my personal examples of these. Ironically, shaving the yak often helps me to discover that I didn’t need to do that other thing at all, that another direction would be way better that I would not have seen had I not allowed myself to “go down that rabbit hole” (the other, less-cool phrase for the same thing).
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