Why do you CRIMP?

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 29, 2011 at 03:31 PM

Ken wrote:
>Why CRIMP? Because I can only handle so much of The Pomodoro Technique -
>http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ before I feel like a slave to my work at hand. A
>guy has to dream once in a while that he is in charge of his work load, and not vice-versa.

I have also experimented with the Pomodoro technique but it didn’t work for me. I couldn’t just stop writing after 25 min, if I was mid-flow. I also kept forgetting to time my breaks, ending up with longer breaks than 5 min. Instead, I invented the Reverse Pomodoro Technique ??? (patent pending). It consists of a cheap stopwatch, a Google Doc spreadsheet, and me simply timing, recording and adding up my productive work time periods per day.

I find this more helpful because it actually allowed me to discover the length of my own natural Pomodoro (which is about 30 min, but sometimes 40 min and occasionally even 60min). This way I can know whether I have worked a good day, as I can compare my daily productive work time with the previous ones or the average. As for breaks, I can take them whenever and as long as I wish. What matters is that I reach my productive daily quota.

I actually tried to use various software and platforms to track my work time but they all involved too many steps, and I ended up forgetting to turn them on or off. Having a real stopwatch in front of me is easy, as it is to update the Google spreadsheet. Should you need a specialist stopwatch, please contact me. I will be launching a Reverse Pomodoro ??? branded range soon…