Channel: One Daily Nugget
Issue #1004 | How Calendars Impair Your Productivity
We all use calendars to manage our work. In today’s nugget, however, published on Medium, Mike Monteiro makes a provocative case against the conventional use of calendars.
The main problem, Monteiro argues, is that calendars “are additive rather than subtractive.” Indeed, most of the items that others put on your calendar tend to prevent you from actually getting things done.
Read on to learn more!
The Chokehold of Calendars
Medium • 3-minute read
We all use calendars to manage our work. In today’s nugget, however, published on Medium, Mike Monteiro makes a provocative case against the conventional use of calendars.
The main problem, Monteiro argues, is that calendars “are additive rather than subtractive.” Indeed, most of the items that others put on your calendar tend to prevent you from actually getting things done.
Read on to learn more!
The Chokehold of Calendars
Medium • 3-minute read
Issue #1005 | Miss Manners on Handling Time Zones
How do you greet someone who is in a different time zone? Let’s say it’s still morning for you, but, for your interlocutor, it’s already evening. Maybe it’s best to play it safe and just say “hello”?
As in all matters of etiquette, Miss Manners has an authoritative answer. Read on to learn more!
Whose Time Zone Is It, Anyway?
UExpress • 1-minute read
How do you greet someone who is in a different time zone? Let’s say it’s still morning for you, but, for your interlocutor, it’s already evening. Maybe it’s best to play it safe and just say “hello”?
As in all matters of etiquette, Miss Manners has an authoritative answer. Read on to learn more!
Whose Time Zone Is It, Anyway?
UExpress • 1-minute read
Hi Nuggeteers! We hope you enjoyed our nuggets this week!
As always, let's take our traditional weekly poll to find out which nugget was your favorite. (Remember that you can vote for more than one option.)
As always, let's take our traditional weekly poll to find out which nugget was your favorite. (Remember that you can vote for more than one option.)
One Daily Nugget poll for the week of April 14
Final Results
13%
How to thrive in an unknowable future
63%
How to Read More: A Busy Person’s Guide
0%
Lifting Weights Just Once a Week Can Cut Your Heart Disease Risk in Half
13%
A Word to the Resourceful
0%
The inconvenient truth about love — and divorce
13%
The Chokehold of Calendars
0%
Whose Time Zone Is It, Anyway?
By the way, you might be wondering who won our last weekly poll. And the winner is...
Get Rich With: Profitable Leisure Time
If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, check it out.
Get Rich With: Profitable Leisure Time
If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, check it out.
Issue #1006 | Oliver Burkeman’s Secrets to a Fulfilled Life
For over a decade, Oliver Burkeman, best-selling author of Four Thousand Weeks, had been writing a weekly self-help column, This Column Will Change Your Life, published by the Guardian.
In today’s nugget, we feature Burkeman’s final edition. In wrapping up, he distills eight secrets to a fulfilled life.
Kudos to Nuggeteer Kyle Daryll Sanchez for discovering this gem and sharing it with our curation team!
Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
The Guardian • 7-minute read
For over a decade, Oliver Burkeman, best-selling author of Four Thousand Weeks, had been writing a weekly self-help column, This Column Will Change Your Life, published by the Guardian.
In today’s nugget, we feature Burkeman’s final edition. In wrapping up, he distills eight secrets to a fulfilled life.
Kudos to Nuggeteer Kyle Daryll Sanchez for discovering this gem and sharing it with our curation team!
Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
The Guardian • 7-minute read
Issue #1007 | Inner God Versus Inner Worm
We would all like as much freedom as possible, right? In fact, freedom can also be scary.
In today’s nugget, published by the Academy of Ideas, we learn how our "inner god" pushes us towards embracing limitless possibilities, while our "inner worm" fears this freedom, leading us to adopt behaviors that limit our potential.
Read on to learn more!
Freedom and Anxiety: The Inner God vs The Inner Worm
Academy of Ideas • 7-minute read
We would all like as much freedom as possible, right? In fact, freedom can also be scary.
In today’s nugget, published by the Academy of Ideas, we learn how our "inner god" pushes us towards embracing limitless possibilities, while our "inner worm" fears this freedom, leading us to adopt behaviors that limit our potential.
Read on to learn more!
Freedom and Anxiety: The Inner God vs The Inner Worm
Academy of Ideas • 7-minute read
Issue #1008 | Common Mistakes When Delegating
In issue 898 of One Daily Nugget, Amy Gallo urged you to overcome your resistance to delegation.
What if you’ve overcome your resistance and are now delegating, but it’s not really working?
In today’s nugget, published by the Harvard Business Review, Sabina Nawaz offers a few hints.
Read on to learn more!
You’re Delegating. It’s Not Working. Here’s Why.
Harvard Business Review • 6-minute read
In issue 898 of One Daily Nugget, Amy Gallo urged you to overcome your resistance to delegation.
What if you’ve overcome your resistance and are now delegating, but it’s not really working?
In today’s nugget, published by the Harvard Business Review, Sabina Nawaz offers a few hints.
Read on to learn more!
You’re Delegating. It’s Not Working. Here’s Why.
Harvard Business Review • 6-minute read
Issue #1009 | On Being a Mom
Around two weeks ago, in issue 996 of One Daily Nugget, Lynnette Sheppard listed 20 things she wished she had known before having children.
In today’s nugget, published by The Gottman Institute, we’re back to the topic of parenting.
Julie Gottman shares her perspective on a fundamental question: What does being a mom mean?
Read on to learn more!
What Does Being a Mom Mean to Me? A Miracle
The Gottman Institute • 2-minute read
Around two weeks ago, in issue 996 of One Daily Nugget, Lynnette Sheppard listed 20 things she wished she had known before having children.
In today’s nugget, published by The Gottman Institute, we’re back to the topic of parenting.
Julie Gottman shares her perspective on a fundamental question: What does being a mom mean?
Read on to learn more!
What Does Being a Mom Mean to Me? A Miracle
The Gottman Institute • 2-minute read
Issue #1010 | Seth Godin on Punctuality
In issue 994 of One Daily Nugget, we featured Tim Urban’s humorous take on being late.
In today’s nugget, Seth Godin shares his perspective on the topic. His advice? Act like a commuter train!
Good intentions (how to be on time)
Seth’s Blog • 2-minute read
In issue 994 of One Daily Nugget, we featured Tim Urban’s humorous take on being late.
In today’s nugget, Seth Godin shares his perspective on the topic. His advice? Act like a commuter train!
Good intentions (how to be on time)
Seth’s Blog • 2-minute read
Issue #1011 | A Primer on Sleep Hygiene
In issue 795 of One Daily Nugget, Eric Barker shared insights from neuroscience on how to improve your sleep.
In today’s nugget, published by the Sleep Foundation, Eric Suni and David Rosen return to sleep basics by providing a concise, yet comprehensive, set of guidelines for sleeping better by mastering sleep hygiene.
Read on to learn more!
Mastering Sleep Hygiene: Your Path to Quality Sleep
Sleep Foundation • 7-minute read
In issue 795 of One Daily Nugget, Eric Barker shared insights from neuroscience on how to improve your sleep.
In today’s nugget, published by the Sleep Foundation, Eric Suni and David Rosen return to sleep basics by providing a concise, yet comprehensive, set of guidelines for sleeping better by mastering sleep hygiene.
Read on to learn more!
Mastering Sleep Hygiene: Your Path to Quality Sleep
Sleep Foundation • 7-minute read
Issue #1012 | How Not to Stereotype
In the 1980s, a black piano player called Daryl Davis managed to befriend more than 200 Ku Klux Klan members and convince them to leave the organization.
He did so by helping prejudiced Klansmen focus on his individual characteristics rather than his group identity.
In today’s nugget, published by Greater Good, Zaid Jilani shows how we can employ similar strategies to overcome stereotypes ourselves.
Read on to learn more!
How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals
Greater Good • 8-minute read
In the 1980s, a black piano player called Daryl Davis managed to befriend more than 200 Ku Klux Klan members and convince them to leave the organization.
He did so by helping prejudiced Klansmen focus on his individual characteristics rather than his group identity.
In today’s nugget, published by Greater Good, Zaid Jilani shows how we can employ similar strategies to overcome stereotypes ourselves.
Read on to learn more!
How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals
Greater Good • 8-minute read
Hey Nuggeteers! We hope you liked our daily nuggets for the past week!
Let's now take our traditional weekly poll to find out which nugget you enjoyed the most. (Remember that you can vote for more than one option.)
Let's now take our traditional weekly poll to find out which nugget you enjoyed the most. (Remember that you can vote for more than one option.)
One Daily Nugget poll for the week of April 21
Anonymous Poll
25%
Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
13%
Freedom and Anxiety: The Inner God vs The Inner Worm
13%
You’re Delegating. It’s Not Working. Here’s Why.
0%
What Does Being a Mom Mean to Me? A Miracle
25%
Good intentions (how to be on time)
25%
Mastering Sleep Hygiene: Your Path to Quality Sleep
0%
How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals
Probably, you wonder which issue came on top in the previous poll. The Nuggeteering gold goes to…
How to Read More: A Busy Person’s Guide
In case you didn’t have a chance to enjoy it last week, feel free to check it out now.
How to Read More: A Busy Person’s Guide
In case you didn’t have a chance to enjoy it last week, feel free to check it out now.
Issue #1013 | James Clear on Using the “Eisenhower Box”
Dwight Eisenhower was a leader renowned for his exceptional productivity. His most famous time management technique was a prioritization tool that plotted tasks on a 2x2 matrix based on their urgency and importance.
In today’s nugget, James Clear provides a practical guide to using Eisenhower’s matrix in your everyday life.
Read on to learn more!
How to be More Productive and Eliminate Time Wasting Activities by Using the “Eisenhower Box”
James Clear • 4-minute read
Dwight Eisenhower was a leader renowned for his exceptional productivity. His most famous time management technique was a prioritization tool that plotted tasks on a 2x2 matrix based on their urgency and importance.
In today’s nugget, James Clear provides a practical guide to using Eisenhower’s matrix in your everyday life.
Read on to learn more!
How to be More Productive and Eliminate Time Wasting Activities by Using the “Eisenhower Box”
James Clear • 4-minute read
Issue #1014 | How to Make Friends
"The act of making and being a friend is as simple as it is difficult,” Julia Furlan writes in today’s nugget, published by NPR.
To help you with the difficult part, she reached out to experts and distilled their recommendations into a handful of practical insights.
Read on to learn more!
How to make friends? Accept the awkwardness
NPR • 3-minute read
"The act of making and being a friend is as simple as it is difficult,” Julia Furlan writes in today’s nugget, published by NPR.
To help you with the difficult part, she reached out to experts and distilled their recommendations into a handful of practical insights.
Read on to learn more!
How to make friends? Accept the awkwardness
NPR • 3-minute read
Issue #1015 | Disappointing Your 16-Year-Old Self
We mature as we age. But, as Brett and Kate McKay point out in today’s nugget, published by The Art of Manliness, it is nevertheless useful, and perhaps even revelatory, to reflect on what your 16-year-old-self would be disappointed by, in looking at your today’s self.
Read on to learn more!
What Would Disappoint Your 16-Year-Old Self About the Current You?
The Art of Manliness • 2-minute read
We mature as we age. But, as Brett and Kate McKay point out in today’s nugget, published by The Art of Manliness, it is nevertheless useful, and perhaps even revelatory, to reflect on what your 16-year-old-self would be disappointed by, in looking at your today’s self.
Read on to learn more!
What Would Disappoint Your 16-Year-Old Self About the Current You?
The Art of Manliness • 2-minute read
Issue #1016 | A How-To Guide for Video Calls
In the era of remote work, video calls are on the rise. In today’s nugget, published by TED, Briar Goldberg shares seven practical tips for how to do them well.
Read on to learn more!
7 Zoom mistakes you might still be making — and how to raise your video skills
TED • 7-minute read
In the era of remote work, video calls are on the rise. In today’s nugget, published by TED, Briar Goldberg shares seven practical tips for how to do them well.
Read on to learn more!
7 Zoom mistakes you might still be making — and how to raise your video skills
TED • 7-minute read
Issue #1017: Lessons From Not Drinking for Two Years
In issue 809 of One Daily Nugget, we featured William Leith’s cautionary tale of how drinking can take over one’s life.
In today’s nugget, published on Medium, Andy Boyle shares a hopeful tale of what happened after he decided not to drink for two years.
Read on to learn more!
What I learned not drinking for two years
Medium • 6-minute read
In issue 809 of One Daily Nugget, we featured William Leith’s cautionary tale of how drinking can take over one’s life.
In today’s nugget, published on Medium, Andy Boyle shares a hopeful tale of what happened after he decided not to drink for two years.
Read on to learn more!
What I learned not drinking for two years
Medium • 6-minute read
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