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by ltc5505 2550 days ago
What do you mean by yak shaving?
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alexjm 2550 days ago
Yak shaving usually refers to work that you started doing because you needed it while working on your actual problem, but the work isn't directly related to that problem's solution.

Here's a more detailed discussion: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...

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ltc5505 2549 days ago
Awesome! Thank you!
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