[jffry]

I travel to and from my office on public transit each day, and I am in the habit of shutting down my laptop before putting it in my bag.

With full disk encryption and a strong password, it means one less thing to worry about in the unlikely event somebody steals my bag while I'm out and about. (I'd still invalidate credentials and rotate passwords, but it would be with less urgency).

Plus, it's not like it takes a huge amount of time in the morning to boot up - usually about the same amount of time as it takes me to get it plugged in and squared away on my desk anyways.

[kirb]

Couldn’t you just hibernate (ie, save the RAM contents to a file on disk, power off, then write the data back on next boot)? I don’t remember exactly how it’s done on macOS but it’s possible. You can also set it to hibernate after sleeping for a while which is what I use. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/127650