techniques

One Year of Pomodoros

Self-awareness
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The pomodoro technique is, in short, starting a timer and doing 25 minutes of focused work on a single task without interruption, followed by a five minute break. Choose a new task, restart the timer, and repeat. Throughout 2013 I used pomodoros to execute on pretty much all of my life projects, organized into the following […]

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How to Understand People Better – lesswrong.com

Self-mastery

Pwno over at Less Wrong has written a cool post on how to understand people better. From the introduction: I’ve been taking notes on how I empathize, considering I seem to be more successful at it than others. I broke down my thought-patterns, implied beliefs, and techniques, hoping to unveil the mechanism behind the magic. […]

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