I dislike the idea of using 'origin' for my own remote name.

I keep 'origin' as the canonical remote and my local master branch tracks origin/master. I use people's usernames for their remotes (including for my own).

If I'm pushing a feature branch to my own remote:

    git push -u myusername mybranchname

If I need to checkout someone's PR, it's:

    git remote add theirusername git@github.com:theirusername/repo.git
    git fetch theirusername
    git checkout -t theirusername/repo

I've seen people at work who are new to git/Github struggle a lot with the 'origin'/'upstream' differentiation recently, especially when they're learning branching, and they don't seem to have any problems once I switch them over to using 'origin' + usernames.