How loneliness quietly erodes concentration
Loneliness runs in the background and spends the attention you meant for work. How lonely focus gets harder, and the small levers that may help.
The PetPomo Blog 🐾
Focus, the pomodoro technique, and notes from building a virtual pet that lives on your desk. RSS.
Hyperfocus: when the problem is stopping, not starting
ADHD hyperfocus is focus without brakes — missed meals, lost hours. Why a bell that ends sessions matters as much as the one that starts them.
Finding real focus blocks between meetings
Forty minutes between meetings is too short for deep work and too long to waste. One pomodoro fits that gap exactly — here is how to defend it.
Finishing what you start: closing loops with a bell
How to finish tasks when everything trails off instead of ending — give work an honest finish line, close the open loops, and let a bell say done.
External structure: borrowing a clock when yours is unreliable
External structure for ADHD means outsourcing time-sense to alarms, visible timers and other people — prosthetics, not crutches, and nothing to apologise for.
Exam prep with a companion who keeps the schedule
Revision is a long campaign where pace beats intensity. How pomodoro sessions and a companion who expects the routine keep exam prep steady for weeks.
ADHD and the 25-minute timer: why one length doesn't fit every brain
25 minutes is a convention, not a rule. Why ADHD brains often need a different session length, and how to actually find yours.
Body doubling without video-call anxiety
Every popular body doubling tool assumes you're comfortable on camera. What to do when the camera itself is the barrier, not the working alone.
The real cost of context switching
The context switching cost that hurts productivity isn't the glance at the other thing — it's the slow reload afterwards. How bounded sessions help.