Well, sure, procrastination is a subset of yak shaving ... but it's also a matter of degree. Consider my example of evaluating ORMs. Option 1: Blindly choose

Well, sure, procrastination is a subset of yak shaving ... but it's also a matter of degree. Consider my example of evaluating ORMs. Option 1: Blindly choose first ORM from a Google search. Option 2: spend 2 hours reading reviews, blogs, etc. to compare the 3 most popular ORMs. Option 3: spend a day spinning up containers for each ORM, testing out a CRUD prototype for each, evaluating some basic cases. Option 4: spend a week down the deep rabbit hole of ORM internals, query rolling, edge cases at scales your app will never see ... And everything in between. None of it's necessary - even the ORM itself - but it's not all wasted effort either.