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Great post from Ben Orlin on treating time as a constraint and not an optimization target.
Example from his post: Instead of what is the fastest meal I can make, consider what’s the best meal I can make in the next 40 minutes?
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022/05/03/optimizing-your-life-without-losing-your-soul/
@brozek Favorite line there: "When it comes to optimizing one’s life, I’ve come to believe that simple constraints are healthy, but simple objectives are not."
I've really enjoyed at least in creative endeavors having no objective, then reviewing the product after a cooling off period.
Never read one of the pomodoro timer books so I wonder how this thinking realtes to those.
@weex I agree with your statement on creativity, people often mistake constraints for the objective.
Though I do believe constraints are necessary as well. Otherwise we can struggle from the "blank canvas" problem.
I am not fully read on the Pomodoro technique but I imagine that those timers serve as a necessary constraint to help motivate people to work on their true objectives.