Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (2018)
At the time of writing this, this "article" is #1 on HN default sort. It's an incredibly short, and fluffy post (self reported as a 3 minute read), with little more substance than an urban dictionary listing. I'm baffled.On the topic of yak shaving though: I recently felt like I wanted to do more technical writing. The prerequisites of this idea involved building a static site generator and redesigning my website. While building the SSG, I of course imagined all the features that would be expected, a tagging system, JSON output in addition to markdown rendering, custom syntax highlighting for codeblocks etc etc. I had that idea at least 1-2 years ago, and I've only recently written my first post within the past 2 months. I think I enjoy tinkering with build systems much more than writing.