Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

Brain Performance

The human brain is refueled every hour with 2 grams of glucose (comparable to a sugar cube), 150 liters of blood transports, and 3 liters of oxygen. Even though our brains are only 2 percent of our body weight, it consumes 20 percent of the oxygen.^[4]

Our brains have something like 100 billion nerve cells. They are called neurons, and they talk to each other through 100 trillion synaptic connections. The possible number of thought tracks is the digit 1 followed by 800 zeroes!^[5]

Matching overall human behavior will take about 100 million MIPS of computer power. Deep Blue, the chess machine that played against world chess champion ...