Large land mass is prone to planetary events.

Pomodoro Technique seems to work brilliantly. There are many desktop apps like "Be Focused", you can actually do a lot more in a short amount of time using it and don't really have to work that much all day.

I tried the pomodoro technique yesterday. I had one successful pomodoro on the morning when it was quiet, and then when I went to take five minutes to clear a few things away before starting the next pomodoro, those five minutes some how became the rest of the day and I never got a chance to start my second pomodoro

I had the impression that you needed to be rich to live in London.

London is a big place.

Why no technical interview?

Too long to read, I honestly tried... Someone please make a TLDR app and summarize the main content.

The article will prob be on the long read podcast in next few weeks

It's meant to be a long read.

always wanted for something like this, it'd be a browser plugin at best

It's your lucky day - https://tldrthis.com/

What browser do you recommend?

Firefox is the best option.

I think browser diversity is important to ensure that web platform features are thoroughly planned. While FLoC shows that chromium-based browser will oppose the worst features that Google attempts to push through Google has already been know to implement web features that all other browsers have expressed no interest in implementing, often due to privacy concerns. So while I think many other Chromium based browsers are better than Chrome giving market share to an alternate browser engine is a huge benefit for the open web.

An example where Firefox felt that the privacy concerns of a feature were not sufficiently addressed is https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096. There are many more examples, especially around many of the APIs to expose local devices.

Another option is Safari which I consider a better option than Chrome but they also seem to prefer pushing native apps over the open web and Safari seems to purposely lag behind on implementing some critical web features (especially on mobile).

You sound really smart although dropping out makes it harder to get hired. Perhaps, consider starting a company?

I like OTP. But I fear when I change phone number or leave country, the next owner could literally login to any of my online accounts using OTP on my previous number. That's why I always remove it from every account when I update, but can't keep track of all my accounts or emails.

Don’t give up your main number. 10 years ago I changed phone numbers and ported my old one to a super cheap SIP line. 3 years later I grabbed it back and it’s been that’s my main number since.

I use SMS OTP for a lot of services which would have little consequence if hacked.. and leave things like email and other sensitive stuff to the apps generating tokens.

That's true. My UK number seems to be completely fine after many years, even if I don't top it up. But some other country, after few months of inactivity they seem to be automatically sold to a new user.

That's true with mostly every big corporations and tech giants. Their "innovation" is mostly 2-3 year research on new ideas and risks of smaller companies, startups and kickstarter projects.