The Ten-Minute Reset Between Roles
The commute used to do a job nobody noticed: it let one self end before the next began. Build the buffer back.
You are not the same person at work and at home, and you are not supposed to be. The roles ask different things: one wants decisiveness, the other patience; one rewards speed, the other presence. The problem is not the difference. It is the missing seam between them.
When work ended a train ride away from dinner, the transition handled itself. When it ends one staircase from the kitchen, the meeting walks straight into the meal — and everyone at the table can tell the meeting is still chairing you.