上周五，当我们对员工的每周升级进行汇总时，我们的编辑们正在调整我们的寒冷天气配件，采用药物来对抗季节性疾病，并试图在我们的社交媒体饮食中加入一些积极因素。

本周，我们将简化我们获取早晨***的方式，学习何时从新闻周期中休息，从小处开始养成新习惯，并欢迎新员工（！！）给tl80团队。

你这周做了什么升级？请在评论中告诉我们。

Give up tea for “bad coffee” and a simpler routine

Each morning I used to make coffee for my wife and tea for me, juggling an array of pour-over accoutrements. I finally gave in and switched from tea to coffee, so now I just use a drab little Black and Decker coffeemaker, and it’s so much easier. Turns out “bad coffee” is good enough for us.

nick douglas, staff writer

Prioritize face-to-face interaction over your news feed

I spent a few evenings catching up with friends, which was the best thing I could have done during what’s seemed like a never-ending ***laught of terrible news. If there’s one thing we all need more of, it’s good conversation with good people over good food.

alicia adamczyk, staff writer

Build a major habit with tiny changes

Getting back in the habit of daily reading is hard when your morning commute involves being packed in a subway car like a sardine. Instead of carrying a giant tome about Casanova, I decided to adapt to my environment, and bring what would lend itself to subway reading. That meant finding and organizing every interesting—and tiny—book I have. Right now, I’m quite comfortably devouring a book about zazen. Next up? A guide about pencil sharpening. Sure, I’m not devouring the books at the top of my “to read” pile, but at least I’m building the muscle.

patrick austin, staff writer

Make your own indulgent ingredient

I made this toasted cream, which really is as good as it sounds. It works well in sweet and savory applicati***, and makes whatever you add it to a little richer and deeper. I’m particularly excited about the butterscotch-like quality it gives to this cocktail.

claire lower, food & beverage editor

New job, new commute

I started a new job this week (guess where!), and my life has been drastically improved by my new commute. It only shaved off 10-15 minutes from my subway ride, but it feels like a whole new world, with more time at home to get ready, and easier to get to work earlier. (Also the people I work with seem to be talented and nice and **art and friendly...but definitely the new commute is the highlight.)

joel kahn, senior video producer

Stem the tide of cord clutter

There are five people living in my house. We all have devices we charge sometimes, and I was getting sick of Nintendo charging cables wrapping around the toaster. (For some reason, the prime charging spots all seemed to be in the kitchen??) So I made a charging station. Our TV is mounted on the wall, which means our entertainment cabinet (where the sound system and other electronics live) has nothing on top of it besides a bunch of dusty old DVDs. (Sadly, my hu**and would not let me get rid of any of the DVDs, insisting that every single one of them sparks joy, but I found them some alternate shelves.) I plugged in a new power strip behind the cabinet, brought all of the family’s chargers to the new spot, and even installed some cute cable holders to organize them all. Now, everybody always knows where their gadgets are, and the toaster is freed from its wirey prison.

beth skwarecki, health editor

Fake the effects of natural light

I’ve waffled on this purchase for a while, but I finally sprung for a Philips Wake-Up Light (it was 30% off on Amazon, plus they were offering a $25 off coupon), and I already love it. I still need an alarm or noise to fully wake me up (I’ve set this one to a radio alarm to wake me up with WQXR), but with light slowly ramping up in the 20-30 minutes before my wake-up time, I find that the alarm is much less jarring, and I start the day in a better mood. This also means I don’t need to keep my phone on my bedside table anymore, so I may make the leap to having the phone-free bedroom everyone says is so much better for your sleep and well being.

virginia k. **ith,managing editor

Re-learn the importance of listening

I had my teeth cleaned. Having **ooth, shiny teeth is a nice upgrade, but what I’m always really impressed by is how many details my hygienist remembers about my life. She recalled my gym schedule, my neighborhood, my kid’s birthday month, my favorite bread, and the exact trajectory of my career over the past few years. It’s good to know that she’s actually listening during **all talk (a skill I want to be better at!), and that she can understand me while my mouth is pried open and I’m getting the gunk scraped off my molars.

michelle woo, parenting editor