Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
The Setup This summer the family and I travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico where my big kids took Spanish immersion classes in a kids summer camp, and I worked remotely for the month of July (there are amazing coworking spaces and cafes with great internet). My youngest shared a babysitter with a friend doing the same Read More …
Day 1 of Invisalign I had 20 minutes to eat between meetings, and 15 minutes in I still hadn’t gotten my bottom tray out despite prying at it with my fingers just like the dentist taught me. And it hurt like hell! What did I get myself into? How did I get here? And could Read More …
It’s been in my planner for months: get back to blogging. So when I finally sat down last night to blog I was dismayed to see my WordPress website totally inaccessible, displaying a 503 error: Note: since this is self hosted, yours truly is the aforementioned Technical Support department. Not to be blocked there, I Read More …
After a long time separating out my humanities and lifestyle blogging from my technical blogging, I’m transitioning my Medium over to this blog permanently to have a unified polymathic single stop shop for thoughts. This process was a bit cumbersome to discover, as the AIs and many threads claimed there was a plugin or native Read More …
Recently I’ve gotten very interested in bio-manufacturing and synthetic biology in the context of precision fermentation. I have an academic background in physics and computer science, and the last time I took a biology class was as a senior in college at MIT. To educate myself, I’ve equipped a home garage lab and am doing Read More …
I find my productivity and habit systems tend to need switching up over time; either my. phase of life changes, or if it doesn’t, I acquire immunity to existing approaches. This past year, I’ve been influenced by reading Atomic Habits, as well as participating in the Street Parking online fitness community (who themselves are big Read More …
Tinyletter was shut down unbeknownst to me earlier in 2024. I used TinyLetter to chronicle my nearly-a-year at the geographic South Pole. Now that I’ve left social media and am no longer reading the news, I’d like to keep in touch with folks more via email so I thought to look up my old subscribers Read More …
You might have run across my posts about my extreme inbox management: TLDR: I previously used hundreds of filters, marking many as read, and partitioning the inbox. The crux of the method is a label I have: to-respond, which I immediately triaged any email that needed a response to. Now in the 2020s I’ve updated Read More …
I’ve been listening to the 80,000 hours podcast a lot recently*. On the podcast they had a discussion of why you should stop reading the news with Brian Caplan, which pointed to Rolf Dobelli’s book Stop Reading the News. I picked up the book, also read it, and promptly stopped reading (and watching or listening) Read More …
After posting Bridging the Great Stagnation: Why Taking an Extra Decade to Master the Fundamentals Matters, I got wind from my dedicated social contact who braves Twitter that some are interested in a book list alongside. Rather than post specific books, I’ll post my personal algorithm for the content I focused on reading during each Read More …