Note also the implicit assumption that Dorsey does this to pointlessly inflict suffering on himself.

Much, much more likely it's to give him thinking space outside the office (a.k.a. the place where deep thought goes to die).

I've often walked to work and back in my career, including in times when it's cold and slightly rainy. Typical walking commute: about an hour each way. I've done some of my best work during these walks. It had nothing to do with Stoicism or being some sort of Valley-esque "elite", it's simply too hard to spend time in an office staring in silence at the wall without being interrupted or feeling weird. Plus walking gets the blood moving through the brain.

I love walking, but that's like a 2 hour commute each way.

A leisurely walking pace is 4-5mph, so that's about an hour commute. Less after you've done it a few times. If she wanted to use a bike that could be reduced to 20-30 minutes, which is totally reasonable.

That's really inaccurate. 3 mph is fairly brisk (20 minute miles). 5 mph is a 12 minute mile, which is, for many people, a running pace. Were you thinking of kph?

I've been walking to work for over 2 years now. My current commute is a bit over a mile, and it takes me a bit more than 30 minutes. So 5 miles is easily 2 hours, even if you have relatively long legs and walk quickly.

I think you mean 4-5 km/h. 5 miles is a 2 hour leisurely walk, and a very fast march in one hour.

I walk two miles each way every day and it takes me around 45 minutes to an hour to walk the two miles depending on how fast I'm walking. For the round trip it comes to be a bit less than 2 hours.

Is 4-5mph really considered leisurely? I thought the average was around 3mph, I know I feel like I've done proper exercise if I keep 3.5-4mph up for over 30 minutes.

I take 5 miles of walking over 5 minutes of traffic everyday.

If you have 8h of time to do work including commute, like most parents with kids in daycare, then taking long walks is a pretty big luxury. Unless you can do work (calls etc) during the walk of course.

If you would otherwise take time for exercise at other points in the day, you're actually saving time by walking :)

5 miles would take me 80 - 90 minutes walking... that's a lot of exercise time. (I walk about 2 miles every day)

The parent didn't ever say that time had no value. They just said they're fine paying with it to avoid the discomfort of traffic.