Have any of you used the pomodoro technique to avoid burning out too much?

For myself, not per say. I have noticed that having varied, focused, bounded duration tasks tends to improve my productivity though.

What do you imply by "varied"? Is it about the nature of the task?

By varied, I mean that I seem to do better when I have some variety among my tasks. Fix a bug, make a texture, read XYZ article as research, rather than fix bugs all day.

There's a cost to context shifting my brain, but there's also diminishing returns by staying on something too long.

Going back to pomodoro, a TTRPG creator / influencer I follow was recently plugging that as a creativity tool. As I recall it was something like: one idea is easy to brainstorm, but your first idea isn't necessarily your best - push yourself to come up with stuff for X minutes (I think maybe he used 15) before jumping on something.

Here's a link that jumps to that spot - it looks like I mixed it up - he's talking about using it for productivity & focus not necessarily for ideation - so maybe it fits with your query about avoiding burn out better than I previously thought.

Okay, thanks, I'll take a look!

Yeah, context switching is generally seen as expensive, but if overall it works best this way for you, that's good! I suppose I could do something like that too.

But more like AM/PM.

I also have a "too much time in chair leads to spine pain" factor.

But yeah, it's really about "this is something that works for me" rather than "this is the way". If AM/PM switch off works for you, by all means, lean into it.

I'll have to try stuff! 🎉

Can chatgpt "translate" code from a language to another?

Ah, well it seems this could do the job. I'll test it for fun