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All of us, founders and flounderers look for ways to maximize our output. Then we focus on the quality. We discuss distractions that are coming at us with alarming speed and volume and try to make sense of work life balance<\/em>. There is something innately good about all these discussions. If you think about it, it is but the evolutionary process at work. I often have discussions about how so many of us are buried in our smartphones. We talk about lovers in restaurants having a meal in silence while looking at thier respective phones. The calls (including cold ones from folks trying to sell you something), messages, meme\u2019s, forwards, mails, more calls\u2026.you get the drift. But as civilization we have had only 15 years to deal with this rapidity and change. Give us some time and we will figure it out. How do you get work done and still have time to be with your daughter when she gives her first recital? Or ballet performance? Or with your wife when she is feeling low. Or happy. Or worried? How does this impact teams and their productivity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I write about stuff I find and today I read this article by Chris Winfield on How to work 40 Hours in 16.7 (Hours).<\/strong> Sounded like a classic click bait for a ponzi scheme. But then I figured he was writing about Francesco Cirillo\u2019<\/em>s Pomodoro Technique<\/strong>. The premise he sets reflects on 80% of the people I know, including myself. We are trying too hard to get things done and missing out on important stuff. Or feeling drained. We make a big deal out of people who claim they get by with 3 hours of sleep. May be it works for them. Not for most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what is it that Francesco<\/em> proposes? To get to that, you need to understand Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Francesco refers to the work of Bergson<\/em> and Minkowski<\/em> who defines time as an interrelated outcome of two aspects: Becoming<\/em> – \u201cAn abstract, dimensional aspect of time, which gives rise to the habit of measuring time\u2026the concept of the duration of an event ; the idea of being late\u201d and \u201cThe succession of Events<\/em>\u201d – the typical daily routines our lives follow – waking up, eating, study, lunch etc till we go to sleep, which, for example give Children an idea of abstract time which passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of these two, becoming<\/em> generates anxiety. \u201cTwo hours have gone by and I\u2019m still not done; two days have gone by and I\u2019m still not done.\u201d With this background he set about defining the goals of the Pomodoro Technique.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of the Pomodoro Technique is to provide a simple tool\/process for improving productivity (your own and that of your team) which is able to do the following amongst others: <\/p>\n\n\n\n