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@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.