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. Iโ€™m constantly procrastinating by working on this that seem important for what Iโ€™m doing in the moment, but in reality Iโ€™m not making any progress towards my real goal.

Related to ๐Ÿšฒ Bikeshedding.

A good example is me working on a side-project and considering to switch ๐Ÿƒ 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 โ€˜importantโ€™ nonetheless.