People I know what yak shaving is I'm not talking about yak shaving stop
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Not even that. More like, "I'm still working on the same problem but I forget what the purpose was." Depth of distraction, not breadth.
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I thought that was called life.
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"research"
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"debugging"
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Not a word, but there is the old saying, “When you're up to your ass in alligators it can be difficult to remember you set out to drain the swamp.”
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At my house, this is called plot outlining... But yi know that's not helpful.
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infinite regress
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Is “yak shaving“not appropriate here? https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving …
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"Yak Shaving" is good for the recursive addressing of problems needing other problems addressed, i.e. a stack. In this case, you've lost your place on the stack; so I'd propose "yak shave stack smash".
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This is gish galloping
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Mission creep?
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There’s a Malcolm in the Middle opener where Hal has this happen. I think in the course of changing a light bulb he ends up rebuilding the transmission in his car
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Nailing for want of a shoe?
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I bet the Germans have something
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Futility
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Wikipidiaophilia?
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Rabbit wormhole?
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