I started naming my 20 minute bus ride as a "commute meeting" and got way less annoyed somehow

Claire Hill · 2026-09-29T11:00:02.762858+00:00

I ride the 7:15 bus from my place in Minneapolis to the office downtown, about 20 minutes each way, and I started treating it like a fake calendar block just to see what would happen. Turns out I stopped checking email on the bus and just stared out the window or read a few pages of a paperback, and by the time I got to my desk I wasn't already fried at 8am. Does anyone else have a tiny chunk of their routine they secretly turned into something for themselves?

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