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I don't really understand Pomodoro. When I'm at work, I'm constantly confronted by things not working (the dev environment) and using tools others wrote in an ad-hoc way. Any focus time is almost half spent diagnosing issues with the software. I don't do any deep work, because I spend my time writing tests (thanks boss!) and then getting those tests to work. It just feels so unfulfilling, that I don't want to sit there for three minutes to wait for the tests to compile doing nothing, I'd rather at least browse HN.



The best option is make the tests truly fast. The less good option is interlacing two independently testable but closely related tasks. The mind killer is anything else.




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