Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
QFT I’m lucky to have a job in which I can take two weeks of mornings of work to study a nominally tangential subject in greater depth. These past two weeks I attended a series of lectures at the ETH on physics beyond the standard model, the first week was very technical but exciting to Read More …
In the morning when I get into lab, around 10 in the morning, I have a set routine. Make a cup of coffee or tea, update my research wiki with a new entry corresponding to the day’s tasks, write/reply to work related emails, admin phygg.com (spam management etc.), scan/vote on papers of interest. Finally I Read More …
A week ago I hatched a plan to educate myself in a more structured manner on what exactly Wikileaks stands for, its history, and its possible futures with the idea of developing a more concrete and informed opinion (and since I have a habit of taking action with respect to my opinions, thereby guiding my Read More …
Phygg featured on MIT Technology Review. Phygg was down for a bit today due to overload, upgrading my hosting and starting to do some analytics. Having your site go down is a tangy bitter shot of success and failure in the same glass. Here’s to steady uptime and a great phygg community to come! Read More …
Tim O’Reilly describes it better, but I’ll do my best: Foo Camp is an invite only free event at tech publishing mogul O’Reilly’s corporate headquarters. Being invited meant a great deal to me. My biggest source of inspiration has always come from people, and a new friendship with someone who has an infectious spirit and story to tell can give me fuel–literally–for years. I’ve tried to do my best to give back some of the inspiration I stole from the pool to others while stocking up on protein packed chunks for exciting new projects. Foo was the perfect venue for this. Definitely life changing! Read More …
This is from memory, so may contain a few jumps of logic, but I needed to write a quick tutorial for getting code on the iPhone for my Kliq cofounder and figured that it may be useful for the internet-at-large. Read More …
I recommend having a good mobile productivity setup, and having good tools for home, work and travel. Read More …
Happy International Women’s Day 2010! I’ll be doing a longer post on Ada Lovelace Day March 24th (please consider pledging to make a post in your personal blog) but for now, here are some tasty links to bios and articles relating to gender issues, particularly women in the science and technology sector whom I admire. Read More …
I met up with my incredibly talented friend Nada for lunch at Google Zürich today. You can read about how lovely the Google offices are elsewhere on the internet. Nada works on the Gmail team, and she’s the second hacker at Google working on Gmail to deem me a “power Gmail user.” Never fear, it’s Read More …
My personal productivity philosophy is a cross between Getting Things Done and the Cult of Done. I dig the simplicity of the latter, the emphasis on above all done, but some self-reflection and hierarchy of methodology can help reduce the delay between thought and action. My basic principles are: Record goals as soon as they Read More …