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Welcome to the show. Welcome to the Barbic Podcast. We talk about principles that have shaped our everyday

lives and positive ways, quality of life sort of issues, and today I wanted to talk about what we call the

Pomodoro which my little brother Chris introduced me to years ago last we

talked about the quadrants of things that are urgent and

important and we primarily use the pomodoro which is undistracted work, blocks

of time for undistracted work, I'll let Chris introduce that while tackling those issues that are both urgent and important.

So, Chris, thanks for being on the show. Again, tell me a little bit about where did you discover? This is old. This has been around for a while.

Yeah, it actually it looks like it was invented or maybe first published in the late 80s by a guy named

Francisco Serillo. He's an Italian guy, which is actually where the Pomodoro phrase came from,

it means a tomato, it's like tomato timer.

Like your grandma had the old kitchen timer that was in the shape of a tomato that had sort of an equator around it and you could

twist the bottom half and the top half apart and it would tick tick tick tick tick

want right well now we have timers on our phones so we don't have to use these old

kitchen timers but that was originally

what this was based on was how to use a kitchen timer to work efficiently.

That's exactly right and this was introduced to me by two colleagues at work at the same time.

So I can't actually credit one individual over another.

I think it was really becoming a hot topic

within circles of programmers, which is my background.

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