# Project Time Boxes ### Assumptions * You can only work on a project deeply for 12 pomodoros per day on a good day. * You can only do intense mental work for 6 days/week. ### Calculations Therefore a “2 week” project is ~144 pomodoros This is 72 hrs A 100 hour project is 200 pomodoros, which is ~17 working days, ~3 weeks working on nothing intellectually taxing but this project. Projects need to be time boxed both in terms of calendar time and working time. 100 pomodoro project is 8.3 “days” of work ### Hypotheses You should be able to know whether a project is worth continuing after 100 pomodoros. ### Related * [[The Idea Maze]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Project+Time+Boxes) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Project+Time+Boxes)