Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
I’ve done a lot of hard things in my life — accomplishments or experiences that most would find difficult to achieve or endure. I won’t go into too much detail here, but you can check out my website for more christinecorbettmoran.com. Everything from two degrees from MIT, multiple books, multiple children, running multiple startups while completing a Read More …
Back in 2020 there began a meme “Random things in my X that just make sense”. Now that I’ve had the chance to live in the company of ~10 other families for 4 weeks, I’ve spotted some ways our family is unique. I know each of the other families could write a blog just like Read More …
A full-time working parent with a decent “work-life-family” balance might spend 40 hours at their job and 40 hours with their children per week. Assuming a traditional nine-to-five alongside 3–6 hours with kids per day weekdays, and 6–12 hours per day with kids weekends, we are talking equivalent of two full-time jobs. Likewise with a Read More …
I enjoyed slow traveling beginning before college, before it had a name. From the age of 18 on in non-chronological order: A year in Denmark, three months in Baltimore, Jerusalem, New Jersey/New York, San Francisco, Tromsø (Norway). A month in Cairo, in Manila, on trains in Europe. Nearly a year at the South Pole in Read More …
Update: After a year hosting technical in progress works via Obsidian publicly, I decided to go back to using it personally (one vault) and for work (a second vault) without using the publish feature. I find Obsidian great but the interface for browsing didn’t provide a substitute for a blog, which is what I was Read More …
Back in the spring, I had some fun doing experimentation around machine learning models for labelling satellite imagery with atmospheric conditions and various classes of land cover/land. You can check out my work in an open source Kaggle notebook. For this I trained on the data provided in the Planet Kaggle competition, Understanding the Amazon Read More …
Because of my blog series on freezing my eggs in my early thirties a lot of people have contacted me over the years, some friends and some strangers. Some of these are people considering freezing their own eggs, others are going through a fertility journey where egg extraction is likely in the cards. They happen Read More …
I just did my six month check-in for my Passion Plan, a process I currently use to focus on the bigger picture. I use a paper planner, called https://passionplanner.com/, to help integrate higher level aspirations into my mundane day-to-day tasks. This branded planner helpfully outlines the method and there are free resources to print on Read More …
Birth goals For the births of both children, my target was a healthy mom (A), healthy baby (B), and to avoid major surgery (C). For my first birth, as a first time mom, I decided to go about this by birthing in a hospital. I had a doula, labored at home as long as I Read More …
This is the third post in my breastfeeding series. Part 1, One Year of Breastfeeding: A Celebration Part 2, Breastfeeding: The Twelve Month Event Horizon I’ve been delighted to continue to breastfeed my toddler past one year, and recently we passed our two year mark. Breastfeeding a toddler came with some new challenges, including navigating Read More …