Technical Blogging, 2nd Edition

Focus with the Pomodoro Technique

Whatever technique or method you adopt to manage your time (whether the approach I outlined, which is heavily inspired by Getting Things Done, or something else entirely), you’ll get to the point where your calendar says “Blogging.” Now what? You actually have to do the work. And maybe, on that day, you’re not overly inspired or are feeling tired.

Don’t let procrastination win. You want to gather as much focus as possible so as to make productive use of the time you’ve allocated for blogging.

Enter the Pomodoro technique. The Pomodoro technique gets its intriguing name from kitchen timers, which are often shaped like tomatoes (pomodoro means “tomato” in Italian). This productivity hack is extremely simple ...