Description
After a long maternity leave and a podcast re-branding, Anscombe’s Juggle is back with a new look and name: a-kid-emia! In this 8th Episode, podcast host and Harvard postdoc Charlotte Duffee shares a trimestered play-by-play of her latest pregnancy. From her nursing chair (rather than her Philosopher’s Armchair), she offers tips and lessons for pulling off pregnancy and publishing.
Chapters
0:00 - Introduction: video clips from each trimester
2:56 - Academic-adjacent work as a springboard into research
3:13 - The first trimester: morning sickness
4:06 - Managing peaks and troughs in pregnancy
4:32 - Applying frontloading postpartum strategies to the first trimester
7:38 - The second trimester: baby brain
8:05 - What baby brain feels like
9:34 - Timing work hours around baby brain
10:26 - Staggering projects around baby brain
11:18 - The third trimester: memory problems
11:54 - Turning forgetfulness into a research strategy
12:44 - Baby brain as creativity
13:38 - The fourth trimester: creativity vs. productivity
14:08 - Creativity as a decline in productivity
15:38 - Personal benefits of more creative research
16:24 - Gestation as a natural moderator of overwork
17:55 - Against zero sum games and over-ambition on the job market
19:32 - Benefits of parenthood regarding ambition off the job market
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