I’m with you. A decade ago I was pretty gung ho on Pomodoro but as I’ve grown and now end up with significantly more challenging problems to solve (that take mo

I’m with you. A decade ago I was pretty gung ho on Pomodoro but as I’ve grown and now end up with significantly more challenging problems to solve (that take more thought and less code) I definitely prefer the long uninterrupted stretches. However… on days when there is a high volume of synchronous interruptions (meetings and messages), I do still fall back on a 25-30 minute timer if I can. In that case it’s not a disruption, it’s a sufficiently palatable pause on the interruptions. If someone has something urgent they need from you they might be pissed off if they don’t hear back from you until tomorrow; if you get back to them mean 12 minutes [0, 25] minutes later they’ll generally not even notice. Maybe you were in the washroom or had an early or late lunch or a break.