The only of those things that the environment is particularly appropriate for is podcasts – reading/studying on a bus (I think it’s fair to say) isn’t as easy as it is in a library, or at home, and sleeping is definitely better done elsewhere :)

The very fact that there’s something else you’d rather be doing (time with wife and son) tells me that your priorities are such that you could easily find a better use for those 416 hours or so a year…

I commute close to an hour each way door to door (40-odd minute bus ride depending on traffic and another 10 minute walk from bus stop to work) but that time isn’t really wasted time. I read. I catch up on my uni subject work. I listen to a bunch of tech podcasts. I cat nap. I don’t consider any of it wasted time at all.

The only thing wrong with my commute is that it takes time that I could be spending with my wife and boy.