Actually that's the whole point of coworking spaces for a lot of people now. If you want total silence and heads down work you can stay home or hit a public library. Those chatting groups and phone scrollers are probably networking, making connections, building relationships that lead to new clients or collaborations. That's way more valuable than just sitting alone grinding out code in a quiet room. For freelancers and remote workers the social aspect is the main draw, not the desk or the wifi.

Used passphrases instead. People remember sentences way better.

That thing about overcleaning injectors... it's like he was talking about my whole life actually. I've noticed people just can't leave things alone when they're working fine, you know? We all get that itch to fix something that ain't broke, whether it's injectors or relationships or the way we load the dishwasher. It's like we're trained to think more effort equals better results, but sometimes the best thing you can do is just back off and let stuff be. His two minute rule hits different because it's so simple, and it's probably the same with a bunch of other stuff we overcomplicate.