[sansseriff]

If anyone has trouble focusing on personal projects at home, I've found Focusmate (www.focusmate.com) to be very handy. You hop on a scheduled google-meets style video call with someone random, and then just work. You talk very briefly at the beginning to tell each other what you're working on and then you both mute yourselves for 25 - 75 minutes.

It's weird, I've found it really ticks my brain into productivity mode.

[supriyo-biswas]

Do pomodoro timers have the same effect for you? I assume it's the pressure of giving yourself fixed amounts of time and the knowledge of the fact that a break is coming up (so that you don't take one unintentionally) that really drives the productivity.

[joseda-hg]

I've never been able to sitck with pomodoros to the same degree, because ultimately there's no cost or shame to pausing or ignoring a self imposed timer

There is a slight something to ignoring it when there's a person on the other side, even if it is a perfect stranger that I will never see again

[jwmoz]

Seems a very elaborate way just to do some work.

[BroodPlatypus]

It’s how an extroverts brain works. Same reason extroverted CEO’s were pushing for return to office. Social pressure to get work done.