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Where the technique comes from.
The Pomodoro technique was developed in the late 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, then a university student, who used a tomato-shaped kitchen timer to structure his study sessions. Pomodoro is Italian for tomato.
The rule is short: one task, one session, one break. The point is not the exact number of minutes. It is that the interval is short enough to start without dread, and that the break is a fixed part of the cycle rather than something you get to if there is time left.
