MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE POMODORO TECHNIQUE
3 min readMay 5, 2021
In the late 1980s, Italian University student Francesco Cirillo took a tomato kitchen timer and committed to spending just a short amount of time on his studies. Today, it has become the Pomodoro Technique (pomodoro being Italian for “tomato”) and is perhaps the most recognizable focusing method out there.
The trick is its simplicity. It goes as follows:
