Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

Bus Time

I live in a suburb of Stockholm. Since I’m a consultant, I mostly work at a client’s big office somewhere downtown. There’s a bus stop just 100 meters from my house. Every morning starts exactly the same: I go to the bus stop and wait for the bus to come. When it arrives, I step on and sit down in my usual seat. The trip downtown takes about 25 minutes, and I always use it for reading a nonfiction book related to my work.

During these 25 minutes, it’s impossible to get a cup of coffee, to turn on the TV, to check my favorite Internet community, or to do anything else that suddenly turns up to be so dramatically important when I try to ...