Similar thought: I think you could stay there's a spectrum of yak shaving. I wouldn't as the article call 'going down the rabbit hole' yak shaving as rabbit holes feel more intentional.
My feeling of things related to yak shaving:
Rabbit holes - intentionally following some thread of associations looking for some insight or unexpected solution
Yak shaving - While working on something important you iteratively find something more important that you feel you need to deal with first. Supposedly but not necessarily it's something you have to deal with to be able to solve the original problem.
I agree that the articles example of yak shaving is a special case of yak shaving where it isn't very clear that the shaver feels that the distraction is more important. But I suppose such feeling is always a bit implied in the word distraction.
> Yak shaving - While working on something important you iteratively find something more important that you feel you need to deal with first.
No; yak shaving is something you must deal with to continue working on your original "something important". It is solving blockers, not following distractions.
worldsayshi|3 years ago
My feeling of things related to yak shaving:
Rabbit holes - intentionally following some thread of associations looking for some insight or unexpected solution
Yak shaving - While working on something important you iteratively find something more important that you feel you need to deal with first. Supposedly but not necessarily it's something you have to deal with to be able to solve the original problem.
I agree that the articles example of yak shaving is a special case of yak shaving where it isn't very clear that the shaver feels that the distraction is more important. But I suppose such feeling is always a bit implied in the word distraction.
BerislavLopac|3 years ago
No; yak shaving is something you must deal with to continue working on your original "something important". It is solving blockers, not following distractions.