Doing the dishes or other chores doesn't work for me at all but showers are great. When I was at Apple one of the few unalloyed good aspects of the spaceship campus were every section had showers available.

I'd take a brisk walk around the spaceship and then hit a shower. It was a great way for me to avoid an afternoon slump and let me do a lot of background processing in relative peace.

I root caused so many hard to debug issues in the shower! Including some obscure bug in Darwin kernel implemented in assembly. Not that I take my laptop to the shower but exactly like the parent thread mentioned, the problem is still background processing in your head.

Sounds like we should ban you from the shower, then.

(Amusing to see “root caused” == “diagnosed” and != “caused”.)

As a non-native English speaker, on of my favorite things about English is that you can (ab)use just about any noun as a verb and make it sound natural