Back on the blogging train – how to debug a WordPress site 503 error 🤝 motivate yourself to blog

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 …

You Know, We Can Just Stop Consuming the News

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 …

The Easy Things about Hard Things

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 …

(Passion): Planning the big picture

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 …