RE:Productivity

Casey Handmer and Christine Corbett Moran are Ph.D. physicists working and co-parenting together. Re:Productivity is about making progress on life and children and life with children.

RE:Productivity is a technology podcast hosted by Christine Corbett and Casey Handmer, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Christine Corbett and Casey Handmer hosts RE:Productivity, a technology show with 25 episodes published.

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  RE:Productivity

  2026-W21 Kate Darling: Robotics, Parenting Across Cultures, and Writing in the Margins

  May 24, 20261h 12m

  Christine talks with Kate Darling, author of The New Breed and research lead for Robotics, Ethics & Society at the RAI Institute, about parenting in an era of AI and robotics. They cover Alexa upsells, AI tutors, YouTube rabbit holes, humanoid robot hype, school logistics, social media, kids’ books, and the gap between American and European parenting norms. They also cover Kate's recent hobby: romance novels and how to fit it all in between parenting, work, and life. Kate Darling: https://www.katedarling.org/ The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots: https://www.amazon.com/New-Breed-History-Animals-Reveals/dp/1250296102/ RAI Institute ethics research initiative: https://rai-inst.com/resources/press-release/ai-institute-launches-ethics-research/ Beast Academy: https://beastacademy.com/ Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/ Adafruit Circuit Playground: https://www.adafruit.com/category/965 Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code Mark Rober: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober Blake Crouch, Dark Matter: https://blakecrouch.com/books/dark-matter/ Netflix, This Is a Gardening Show: https://www.netflix.com/title/81902230 David Rees, How to Sharpen Pencils: https://mhpbooks.com/books/how-to-sharpen-pencils Dog Man: https://pilkey.com/series/dog-man Diary of a Wimpy Kid: https://wimpykid.com/ Project Hail Mary : https://www.andyweirauthor.com/books/project-hail-mary-hc/project-hail-mary-el The Wild Robot : https://www.thewildrobotmovie.com/ Pax : https://www.harpercollins.com/products/pax-sara-pennypacker Christine Corbett Moran: https://christinecorbettmoran.com/

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  RE:Productivity

  2026-W19 Kara Linse Buckley and Darragh Buckley: Easy Parenting & Meaningful Work

  May 6, 202651 min

  Christine sits down with husband-and-wife duo Kara Linse Buckley (sports marketing, ex-Senior Advisor, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee advisor) and Darragh Buckley (CEO at Increase, employee #1 at Stripe), parents of four in Bend, Oregon. They dig into designing a walkable life around two anchoring goals : easy enjoyable parenting and meaningful productive work, including a custom upcoming house move with kids' bedrooms small-by-design to push family into shared spaces. The conversation ranges across the "lawless place" of the school bus, an extra hour of bedtime math as a happiness hack for the eldest, Beast Academy and the Hard Math for Elementary School curriculum, and how the Federal Reserve quietly pulled off a Fedwire format change with no one noticing. They get into kids learning to code, cursor and Replit unleashing creative explosions (Space Invaders clones, a chemistry-meets-math game), the tension between teaching kids to type vs. voice-driven AI workflows, and the inevitable question of when your child will out-sysadmin you. Plus: an unintentional capitalism unleashing via pesos in a Mexican market, Monopoly variants without sub-$100 settlements, the books making the rounds in their book clubs, and how parenting changes your brain. Books : Heart the Lover by Lily King The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (the "crotchety" letter-writing protagonist) Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (trad-wife time-travel novel; Anne Hathaway optioned the film rights ) Famesick by Lena Dunham The Woman in Me : Britney Spears memoir God of the Woods by Liz Moore (mentioned as a book to skip with postpartum hormones) TV For All Mankind (Apple TV+): new Mars season Kids' tech & education Beast Academy (Art of Problem Solving) Hard Math for Elementary School by Glenn Ellison Scratch (MIT visual programming) Replit Google Colab (Jupyter notebooks for Python) Cursor Claude Code Logo programming language Finance & engineering Increase : Darragh's company Fedwire : the U.S. wire system Patrick McKenzie's Bits About Money newsletter and Complex Systems podcast Places & community Edge Esmeralda : the popup village in Healdsburg, CA where the eldest demoed his Chem-Mash Lab game Bend, Oregon : where Kara & Darragh have built their home, optimized for walkability Games Squatter : the Australian Monopoly-adjacent game in Christine's closet Monopoly: no introduction needed!

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  Episode #18

  2026-W18 Aline Lerner: Claude Code, Reality TV Anthropology, and Hedging Your Meaning

  May 3, 20261h 20mS2026

  Christine sits down with Aline Lerner , founder and CEO of Interviewing.io , for a wide-ranging conversation on parenting, productivity, and the strange in-between space where life and work blur. Aline shares her first-ever Claude Code project, a LinkedIn browser extension to surface meaningful connections, and Christine gives a deep tour of her Open Claw household setup, complete with a Mac mini, a Slack-driven AI agent named Nova, that lets the AI handle birthday party shopping, gardening orders, and recurring doctor appointments. The conversation moves into the trade-offs of schooling gifted kids in California versus magnet programs Aline grew up with in 1990s New York City, calibrating realistic risk (sharks vs. cars vs. small aircraft), and the meritocratic brutality of professional kitchens. Aline shares her unexpected love of Below Deck and Catfish as practical anthropology, useful, it turns out, for catching fraudulent job candidates. The episode closes on raising kids who aren't assholes despite growing up with more privilege than their immigrant parents had, and on hedging your sources of meaning across both family and work.

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  RE:Productivity

  2026-W17-B Brittney Gallagher - Preschoolers, PACs, and the Politics of AI

  Apr 24, 20261h 1m

  Summary Christine sits down with Brittney Gallagher, co-founder and Board Chair of the AI Objectives Institute and team member at AI watchdog The Midas Project. They cover parenting, hobbies, and current events such as cold-turkey potty training, gaming and role-playing, an Expeditionary Force audiobook binge, gardening from orchids to edible flowers, and how much Replit and Scratch to allow a 7-year-old. Then a sober look at this year's AI policy landscape: open-source Chinese models catching up, super PACs spending $125M to defeat Alex Bores over the RAISE Act, and whether you'd board a plane with a 3% chance of crashing. Show Notes Guest & Host Brittney Gallagher , Co-founder & Board Chair, AI Objectives Institute ; Team Member, The Midas Project Christine Corbett Moran, VP of Engineering at Horizon3.ai Games & Media Disco Elysium (and Kim Kitsuragi ) Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson UFO 50 and Party House Dominion Don't Worry About the Vase by Zvi Mowshowitz Kids' Tech & Education Khan Academy Kids Replit Scratch Edge Esmeralda AI Safety & Policy The Midas Project "The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it." (Model Republic), the viral investigation Brittney references AI Objectives Institute California SB 53 New York's RAISE Act and Alex Bores , targeted by Leading the Future super PAC Alibaba Qwen and DeepSeek

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  Episode #17

  2026-W17-A Joyce Yan - postpartum experiences, AI tools in coding, and crunching the data on when to have kids

  Apr 22, 20261h 24mS2026

  In this episode, Christine Corbett Moran hosts Joyce Yan, a software engineer and new mother, to discuss balancing parenthood and a tech career, the impact of AI on software development, and her personal projects like the Fertility Forecaster website ( https://fertilityforecaster.com/ ). They explore postpartum experiences, AI tools in coding, and the future of work and parenting. The discussion goes into the nuances of second-time parenthood, societal expectations, and the cultural narratives around having children. key topics Balancing parenthood and a tech career AI tools revolutionizing software development Postpartum experiences and recovery Building and deploying a fertility app with Claude Code Breastfeeding experiences and lactation support Impact of cultural narratives on parenting decisions Links: Fertility Forecaster website ( ⁠https://fertilityforecaster.com/⁠ ) keywords: parenthood, AI in coding, postpartum, software engineering, fertility app, work-life balance, AI tools, postpartum recovery, tech industry, personal projects postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, family life, career motivation, second-time parent, cultural narratives, fertility crisis, parenting tips

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