The Pomodoro technique is useless here

Everyone is obsessed with the Pomodoro timer. Work for 25 minutes, break for 5. Work for 25, break for 5.

It doesn't work. Not in an Indian remote work environment.

You start your 25-minute sprint. You put your headphones on. Seven minutes in, your mom yells that the gas cylinder guy is at the door. You pause. You pay the guy. You come back. Start the timer again.

Twelve minutes later, the power cuts out. Just for a second. The inverter kicks in, but your router resets. You lose internet for exactly three minutes. You pause the timer again.

It's a fantasy. Pomodoro assumes you have isolated control over your environment. It assumes nothing unexpected ever happens.

Here's the thing — you need long, deep blocks of focus, yes. But measuring it in rigid 25-minute chunks just makes you feel like a failure when life inevitably interrupts you.

I threw out my 25-minute timer. Instead, I use a stopwatch. I hit start when I begin coding. If I get interrupted, I hit pause. At the end of the day, I look at the stopwatch. If it says 4 hours of pure work, I won. The blocks don't matter. Only the total time matters.