A Complex Fascination With Simplicity

Ken Lane
5 min readJun 16, 2023

For many years, I’ve been a practitioner of the Pomodoro Technique. You know, the productivity system in which you set a timer for 25 minutes of dedicated focus on whatever task you undertake. When that timer goes off, you take (or have the option of taking) a 5-minute break. Rinse and repeat this twice and then you can take a longer break — anywhere from 20–30 minutes, depending on who you ask.

I used to use an application — either on my phone or computer — to time these sessions and keep track of how many I had completed. That worked fairly well, but I didn’t…

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Ken Lane

I’m just a fella chronicling his attempts to live purposefully while finding contentment in the simple things.