Variant of the Pomodoro technique, popular among highly successful individuals, and also some university students: Sleep 25 min, work 5 min, repeat. After 4 cycles, take a longer break and relax.
Karen says she's combined the Pomorenko technique with the 4-hour-workweek. Does that mean that she gets everything done within 20 minutes, or did she have to extend her 4 hours to an overall 35 hour week ...
Prof: I think you may have narcolepsy. You should see a neurologist so they can prescribe you some helpful meds.
Bob: No Ma'am, absolutely no narcolepsy. I'm practicing the Pomorenko technique, gives me more focus when I'm studying so I can ace the exam. It's scientifically proven!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)