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Comment by dasmoth | Hacker News Reader

Great to see people trying things like this!

But... Ctrl-F "commute"? Nope, don't see anything. Are you either remote or living very close to the office? Having more than a few minutes of commute does potentially change the trade-offs.

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When you only have to work for 6 hours it's very easy to avoid the more congested hours. Allowing you to get to work by routes that normally are collapsed, or just using the same route and getting there 15+ minutes earlier because there are no traffic.

I think is a win-win

I used to work 6 hours and commuted each day by bike for a total of 2 hours of commute. It was the best. You do your work AND get your daily exercise AND have 8 hours left over.

You had a 1 hour commute each way by bike? Did you live 13+ miles away or did you just take a leisurely pace?

It was ~10km in a straight line uphill. Our roads aren't really built for bikes and I don't want to become a smudge on the road, so my route was more meandering to avoid every large straight road possible. My absolute fastest was 32 minutes going work->home downhill, taking the usually unsafe roads, because traffic was unusually low for that day. After I bought a velocimeter and used it for a while, my average speed was about 14km/h.

I do commute, this gives me roughly 2x50 minutes of time in the train. Since I have a 4/5 work schedule, I'd say I have 2x50 minx4 days + 8 = +- 14 hours free time a week (week end and evenings are family time).

I'm currently 15minutes, about to become 40 minutes from work. I don't mind as audiobooks are a great investment.

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