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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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It's a win-win.
Office/computer/phone type jobs get to stay home, satisfaction and productivity goes up.
In person jobs now have far less cars on the roads every day, rush hour isn't as much of a problem anymore, less time and $ wasted stuck in traffic.
I have an in-person job, and I absolutely loved the big WFH push during COVID.
WFH helps you even if you personally can't do it.
I have an essential job and basically had to work as normal during COVID
I already commute at kind of weird times and basically never have to deal with much traffic anyway, but with almost everything else shut down and no one else on the road I averaged about 1mpg better than I usually do just from not having to deal with even that little bit of traffic.
And that was basically only for my commute into work, I go home at about 3AM, so even on a busy night I see maybe a dozen other cars on the road, so nothing at all changed there.
Just due to where I live and work and the hours I work, it's probably never going to make much sense for me to take public transit, I'd pretty much be the only person ever riding that bus or train or whatever at those times (and there probably wouldn't be too many taking that particular route at other times for that matter) and the nature of my job means I'll probably always have to work at least part time in-person, but getting everyone who possibly can to WFH and/or take public transit means less traffic for me.