Living in an urban area with pub­lic trans­porta­tion beats dri­ving in from sub­ur­bia. Productivity can start once you leave the house:

That first hour of the day, Apple and Google employ­ees are bang­ing out emails and get­ting ready for the day, not sit­ting in traf­fic car­ry­ing out a set of repet­i­tive, low-level, and occa­sion­ally dan­ger­ous tasks to maneu­ver their exoskele­tons southward…in the broad­cast world, being in your car wasn’t so bad: you lis­tened to the radio for fun at home, so the car was kind of a couch on wheels.