Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme 1. Acknowledge the issue ✅ 2. Have a plan ✅ 3. Getting things done ✅ 4. Avoid the yak shave ✅ 5. Learn from the journey ✅ 6. Keep improving ✅
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 1. Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem 2. A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task — Wiktionary “Yak Shaving” article, retrieved April 7th 2018
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow So, I need to wax the car http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seth_Godin_in_2009.jpg Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme 1. Acknowledge the issue ⭕ 2. Have a plan 3. Getting things done 4. Avoid the yak shave 5. Learn from the journey 6. Keep improving
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme 1. Acknowledge the issue ✅ 2. Have a plan ⭕ 3. Getting things done 4. Avoid the yak shave 5. Learn from the journey 6. Keep improving
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme 1. Acknowledge the issue ✅ 2. Have a plan ✅ 3. Getting things done ⭕ 4. Avoid the yak shave 5. Learn from the journey 6. Keep improving
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme 1. Acknowledge the issue ✅ 2. Have a plan ✅ 3. Getting things done ✅ 4. Avoid the yak shave ⭕ 5. Learn from the journey 6. Keep improving
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme 1. Acknowledge the issue ✅ 2. Have a plan ✅ 3. Getting things done ✅ 4. Avoid the yak shave ✅ 5. Learn from the journey ⭕ 6. Keep improving
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme 1. Acknowledge the issue ✅ 2. Have a plan ✅ 3. Getting things done ✅ 4. Avoid the yak shave ✅ 5. Learn from the journey ✅ 6. Keep improving ⭕
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow 6 step programme.. Success ? 1. Acknowledge the issue ✅ 2. Have a plan ✅ 3. Getting things done ✅ 4. Avoid the yak shave ✅ 5. Learn from the journey ✅ 6. Keep improving ✅
Thong Kuah @kuahyeow References • The term “Yak Shaving” was coined by Carlin Vieri in his time at the MIT AI Lab (1993-8) after viewing a 1991 episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show featuring "Yak Shaving Day," a Christmas-like Holiday where participants hang diapers instead of stockings, stuff rubber boots with coleslaw, and watch for the shaven yak to float by in his enchanted canoe. See https://projects.csail.mit.edu/ gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html • http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that.html • https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2005/03/05/yak-shaving.html • https://www.hanselman.com/blog/YakShavingDefinedIllGetThatDoneAsSoonAsIShaveThisYak.aspx • https://stories.buffer.com/how-to-stay-focused-on-your-goals-when-yak-shaving-takes-over- b58f4b56c463 • https://the-composition.com/a-taxonomy-of-yak-shaving-102da591308b