Here’s a productivity hack similar to pomodoro, but not quite the same. Get yourself one of these watches. It has a stopwatch built in, all you have to do is press the start/stop button on top. (This kind of watch is called a “chronograph” but it’s a stopwatch…). Make sure it can track up to 12 hours because a lot of these watches only go up to 30 minutes or so. A cheap knockoff will do, no need to buy a branded one unless you are into that. Now throughout your day, make the stopwatch run when you are being productive By productive I mean you are literally producing something such as: - code - an audit report - a project - a technical article - cold outreach Whenever you: - check twitter - check email - go to the gym - transit between places - eating a meal - taking a walk to clear your head - do anything pseudo-productive (ice bath, sauna, meditation) Then stop the stopwatch and don’t start it until you get back to being productive. The problem with recording a stopwatch on your phone is you have to do multiple clicks to start and stop it, and it has distractions. You want this to be frictionless. Just reach to your other wrist, press button. You could also hang a stopwatch around your neck, but people might think you are weird. Here’s what you will learn: you thought you were “working” 10 hours a day when in reality you were working 3. Then course correct.