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Photo : A.A. Newton I’ve been working from home for something like eight years and I’m somehow still awful at making myself lunch. I sucked at it before COVID and I’m even worse at it now; if I don’t have leftovers in the fridge, my chances of eating a complete, nutritious midday meal decrease to approximately zero. Thankfully, I’m starting to make progress on this front, and I owe it all to a single recipe. New York Times food writer and cookbook author Eric Kim’s tuna mayo rice bowl (TMRB, to me) has saved my ass more times than I can count this year; at least for me, there is no finer work-from-home lunch. It’s delicious, cheap, filling, and has a ton of protein (about 30 grams), all which matter very much to me at this point in my life. Most importantly, though, it’s easy—like, “ easier tha n showering ” easy—and fast. If you’re using leftover rice, you can have a TMRB in five minutes flat, which is a lot less time than it takes to invent reasons to not make lunch. (Making a f...

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc BBBY-Q is in talks with private equity firm Sycamore Partners for the sale of its assets, including its buybuy Baby stores, as part of a possible bankruptcy process, the New York Times reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter. The company is also in talks with other suitors about possible deals, the report added. Bed Bath & Beyond said it does not “comment on speculation of this nature” and reiterated a previous statement that it was exploring multiple paths. Sycamore Partners declined to comment. Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond were down about 4 per cent at $5.02 in morning trading amid weakness in the broader market. The stock rallied for four consecutive sessions this week and closed 50 per cent higher on Thursday. The troubled home goods retailer posted a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss and a plunge in sales on Tuesday, after saying last week it was exploring options, including bankruptcy, as it struggled with a dwindling cash pi...

Consultant and former New York Times columnist Adam Bryant argues every moment of your day falls into one of three categories: want, should or need. You essentially are making decisions on how to use each moment based, implicitly or explicitly, on completing an intention that begins “I want to …,” “I should …,” or “I need to ….” (A close cousin to the last one is: “I have to ….”) If you accept those buckets, he suggests you can use them to better organize your life. You can start by creating a pie chart of your life based on his categorization. “How much of your typical day, week or month falls into each of those three categories? How much of your job is spent doing the things you want to do – ideally creating that state of flow in which your skills and talents are well-matched to the task at hand – versus the things you just muscle through because you should do them or need to do them?” he asks in Strategy + business . There is no right mix. It can depend on the nature of your work ...