Is Pomodoro any useful?

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Has anyone worked with Pomodoro technique and found them really useful? I recently read about it online and I am intrigued. My technique is mostly brute-force (get-on-it-until-it-is-done), and I simply haven't found anything that beats this.

Should I use techniques like Pomodoro?

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