I would love to read what are the best tricks you learned in your commuting experience.
I would like to propose a format, where we use one comment for each single trick/suggestion, so if you have multiple tricks, post multiple comments. This would allow upvotes to create a ranking of best suggestions
I will start with a couple of tricks from my experience.
If you want to survive any accident you are already wearing a helmet, and while glasses are optional, simple pair of cheap, or very nice gloves should be in your kit as your hand is the first thing you’ll put to the floor when falling.
Road rash takes days to come off and in your palms take forever. Burn pads help heal better for road rash but the best step is to avoid them.
As a bonus, gloves let you easily wipe off sweat on the back of your hand - aside from generally being more comfortable. Mind you, I ride slower when commuting and try to avoid sweating as much as possible.