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I guess different stuff works for different people. The pomodoro thing is inhuman in my opinion, too mechanical and the process itself is distracting the mind f
by kosolam 3y ago
I guess different stuff works for different people.
The pomodoro thing is inhuman in my opinion, too mechanical and the process itself is distracting the mind from the actual work that it should work on.
I found the combination of flow+off keyboard thinking time to be my preferred natural flow of work.
Usually I dive in and work in a flow for as long as I can, which usually is around an hour and up to a few hours in some cases.
Then I naturally take a break.
Then get back again.
But in cases when I stop because I need to think rather than think-and-type, the break becomes longer, as necessary.
- halfcat 3y agoI use mini-pomodoro to build momentum when I can’t get started. Start with 2-3 minutes “work”, 1 minute break. Keep bumping those up toward 25/5. Usually by the time I’ve done a few rounds, I don’t want a break and I’ve got my momentum, and I ditch the cycles and just work. This works surprisingly well for me even at a micro level, like exercise 10 seconds, break for 5 seconds, repeat. Before I know it I’m just exercising uninterrupted for 20 minutes. I left out one part: clap for yourself The process is more like: * Pick something * Do it * Clap for yourself * Repeat And the key is to make “do it” as small as necessary to keep the cycle going, then expand it once the human reward system takes over.
- datameta 3y agoAbsolutely this. When I was building up a soldering habit (have a backlog of analog synth modules to make) I made a point of soldering 1 component. But then by the time the iron heated up, I've decided what goes into the board next, and soldered that one component, I might as well do 5 or 10.
- rynoV 3y ago[dead]