Yak Shaving

What is Yak Shaving?

1.

Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

origin: MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.

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