Small rituals that make solitary work feel kept company
The same mug, the same start sequence, a small creature fed at the bell: how repeated work rituals give solitary days edges and a quiet sense of company.
The PetPomo Blog 🐾
Focus, the pomodoro technique, and notes from building a virtual pet that lives on your desk. RSS.
Small rewards, right now: motivation that works with ADHD
Why small, immediate rewards suit ADHD motivation better than distant payoffs — and where honest gamification ends and manipulation begins.
Why skipping breaks makes ADHD focus worse, not better
Skipping breaks does not bank extra ADHD focus — it borrows from the next session. Why a real break needs content, not just an absence of work.
Company without judgement: presence that asks nothing
Why company that cannot judge you is sometimes easier than company that can, and what a silent, undemanding presence actually does for solitary work.
Does the Pomodoro Technique work for ADHD?
An honest answer — the Pomodoro Technique helps many people with ADHD and fails others. What the bounded interval supplies, and how to adapt it.
Making the Pomodoro Technique survive an office job
The Pomodoro Technique was designed for people who control their own time. Here is how to make it survive Slack, meetings and an open-plan office.
How to plan a workday in pomodoros
A workday holds fewer pomodoros than you think. How to plan by sessions instead of hours, leave slack on purpose, and review the week without guilt.
One task per session: the rule that makes pomodoro work
Pomodoro sessions fail when they carry three tasks. Why naming one task before you press start matters more than the timer itself, and how to slice big work.
Loneliness and solitude are not the same thing
Solitude is aloneness you chose; loneliness is aloneness that happened to you. How structure and small presence can tip an empty room from one to the other.