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Thesiswhisperer

79 episodes

1 month ago

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has been living his best life, travelling NZ (where he did not touch boiling mud, as much as he was tempted to) and having excuses to eat pepper steak pies. Meanwhile Inger has been having a shit time at work and waiting for her puppy to arrive. After a confession during the mailbag segment, we hear all about Jason's star keynote at the ASPIRE conference, which led to... well, a bit of a rant on Inger's part at least. You get the pict...

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Self-Improvement

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Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has been living his best life, travelling NZ (where he did not touch boiling mud, as much as he was tempted to) and having excuses to eat pepper steak pies. Meanwhile Inger has been having a shit time at work and waiting for her puppy to arrive. After a confession during the mailbag segment, we hear all about Jason's star keynote at the ASPIRE conference, which led to... well, a bit of a rant on Inger's part at least. You get the pict...

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Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/79)

On the reg

If AI is the hammer, do we have the right nails?

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has been living his best life, travelling NZ (where he did not touch boiling mud, as much as he was tempted to) and having excuses to eat pepper steak pies. Meanwhile Inger has been having a shit time at work and waiting for her puppy to arrive. After a confession during the mailbag segment, we hear all about Jason's star keynote at the ASPIRE conference, which led to... well, a bit of a rant on Inger's part at least. You get the pict...

1 month ago

2 hours 7 minutes

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Analogue Productivity - is this book bullshit?

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger is in town, so Jason took her to a pod casting studio as a treat for episode 80 (can you believe it?!). The sound is very nice on this one folks, but This is a Studio in Prahran can take ALL the credit. There's a fair bit in the mailbag, leading to discussions about the book Inger wrote with Narelle (and Claude) Rich Academic / Poor Academic and a little bit of Text Expander and Omnifocus talk (because naturally). In our work problems...

2 months ago

1 hour 17 minutes

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Tiny Experiments (and larger rants)

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! In the depths of Canberra winter, no one can hear you scream about AI... except for Jason, who had to hear ALL of Inger's feelings. Come for the promise of a 'Is this Book Bullshit?' style review of 'Tiny Experiments' by Jason, stay for the Big Rant about how Inger's anti-AI academic friends now think she is a Republican... it's a lot. Things we mention: Pop Canberra (for the stickers)Fated Mates romance podcast stickersIndigenous Kno...

3 months ago

1 hour 45 minutes

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Ai powered research workflows: Inger finally realises her dream to become a cyborg

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! This one's a bit overdue folks - that's Inger's fault, don't blame Jason! After a long catch up, where we bemoan the state of the higher education sector, and a very full mailbag, we talk about AI powered research workflows. Inger talks Jason through her new AI enabled process for doing literature reviews, analysis and writing research papers. The crew muse on the shift in working practices how you might take advantage (or not) ...

4 months ago

1 hour 53 minutes

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What does it take to be an entreprenerd?

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason lost the annual Downs family hosted hot cross bun competition, but Inger's political team comprehensively won the federal election, so we figure we came out even. There's a bulging mail bag with lots of interesting questions from listeners - some of which we could even answer. Then we chat about the first ten months of our business 'On The Reg Team'. What lessons has Jason learned about being an entreprenerd? loyalty wont...

5 months ago

2 hours 4 minutes

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Is this book bullshit? Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Proactive

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! We're back! It's been six weeks - sorry about that! Jason was finally struck down by covid... for the first time. Yes, really! Now he finally understands what everyone is complaining about. There's a lot to catch up on: the election, a digression into 'Married at first sight' and what happens to a sander when you use it for 6 hours straight on your boat hull. We get half way through a very full mailbag, before getting on to our dissec...

6 months ago

1 hour 59 minutes

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Where Inger makes Jason read a Romance Novel (again!)

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Longtime listeners who have been asking for Jason to read another romance novel: Inger has delivered! Jason reads Rebecca Yarros's 'The Fourth Wing' and only throws up a little bit in his mouth :-) After a bit of mail bag, we go deep on the subject of reading: how much of it there is; how tedious academic reading can be; how tired this reading makes us; the feelings of Guilt when you read for pleasure; and the myth of 'keeping up with the l...

8 months ago

1 hour 49 minutes

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Late stage capitalism wants us dead - what can we do about it?

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason have been on summer holidays. Jason's family acquired a 10 year old ginger cat, while Inger has committed to #puppyproject and put a deposit on a dangerously adorable, small fluffy puppy. Prepare for a lot of pet talk this year!In the mailbag there's a good description of a workflow with Todoist and a lively discussion of bullet journals. The work problems segment was produced with the help of Inger's work Husband, Claude who...

9 months ago

1 hour 59 minutes

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Our technology stacks - what products we use for different problems (Kitchen Table episodes vol 2)

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason catch up at the kitchen table... in Casa Downs this time. The sound on this one is ok, considering we were in a huge open space downstairs!While Jack Downs washes Inger's new car, she catches Jason up on the first Shut up and Write symposium at Cambridge University. Jason tells Inger why Jack Downs is happy to earn 20 bucks by washing her car...There's a bit of mail bag before the Work Problems segment, where the team talk ab...

10 months ago

1 hour 48 minutes

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Why that book about Bullshit Jobs is not, in fact, bullshit.

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is dying of a cold. Inger is surrounded by an ocean of redundancies at ANU. Anyone would think winter was coming, but no - it's the start of Spring (at least here in the Southern Hemisphere).After a bit of mutual whingeing on the State of The World, the team zip through the mail bag. We answer a few burning questions about AI from listeners. There's also wise words from listeners on how to use MS Word properly to do cross referencing a...

1 year ago

1 hour 43 minutes

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The Kitchen Table sessions (volume one)

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!The OTR team have been travelling around the country, and around the world, delivering workshop goodness. Jason was temporarily at the Canberra Branch of OTR Team on the way back from a Sydney gig, so Inger set up a podcast studio from the kitchen table to hear about his glamorous post-Latrobe life, complete with $10 cups of coffee in Hong Kong.The team discuss the usual, you know AI in project management, writing and all that. ChattieG (Cha...

1 year ago

1 hour 33 minutes

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The Pain Sponge (or how to be a less crap academic manager)

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is living his best life, free of Latrobe - but Inger has immediately put him to work! On The Reg Team, their new consulting company, is struggling to life through multiple stages of paperwork. More to come...The team talk about various doings, including Doen's Jnr's laundry skills, Inger's campaign to get a Puppy and getting caught up in the Blue Screen of Death global IT meltdown! There's a full mailbag with some side dashes of Claude...

1 year ago

1 hour 54 minutes

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Is this book bullshit? Cal Newport discovers the labour movement

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!The On The Reg team have been busy with All The Things. In Jason's case, making salami and in Inger's case, possibly signing up to one too many book projects.In the mailbag we marvel over dashboards for packing lists and cool new AI tools recommended by listeners. This week Inger read Cal Newports's latest book 'Slow Productivity: the lost art of accomplishment without burnout' where Cal (maybe?) discovers the point of unions and even name c...

1 year ago

1 hour 52 minutes

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The mean girl in the internet of things

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason has consciously uncoupled from his employer. Inger's getting a Volvo. There is clearly a lot to discuss in the first half an hour, including the survey that Inger finally has out (participate here!)Jason's had some time to wrangle the mailbag, so he's cleaned up Inger's mess and made a spreadsheet. People have a lot to say about our travel episode and we are ready to hear it!In work problems, Jason brings Inger up to speed about Apple ...

1 year ago

1 hour 34 minutes

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The body keeps the score

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is having some time off work to get his health back in order. Inger takes the opportunity to share the whole story of her burn out episode. Be warned, this one gets a bit heavy...We lighten it up in the middle by responding to Ben's question about travelling with a laundry list of suggestions and hacks. Inger confesses her bag and spare cord obsession and Jason reveals his genius hack for making a personalised guide book. There's a lot...

1 year ago

1 hour 48 minutes

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Trusting the Meat Computer

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason convene for the long awaited mailbag episode! (but first there's a bit of old-person whinging about health and other stuff). Inger explains how she and Narelle wrote a 36000 word book in a single weekend with Claude.The mail bag is full to overflowing! There's gold in there - which prompts a very wide ranging conversation about Bujo, task managers, screen capture software, politics and - well, the usual stuff. The...

1 year ago

2 hours 2 minutes

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Obsidian! 1996 called and it wants its database back.

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!It's been quite the month. Jason was pulled over in the Tinny (again), Inger had a mole taken off her foot. We skipped the mailbag in favour of a deep nerd chat about Obsidian starting at 32:51. The discussion gets waylaid part way through by a mutual existential freakout about Claude Opus. It's... a lot. Enjoy!Things we mentioned:Kangaroo time - Winner of the Dance Your PhD competitionBe visible or vanish - the book Inger wrote ...

1 year ago

1 hour 55 minutes

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What we are doing with GenAI now... (it's pretty cool)

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason had pneumonia when he recorded this very long pod with Inger. It's a testament to his brainy-ness (and Inger's sound engineering skills) that it turned out as well as it did, given he coughed and sweated his way through it.Warning: in the chat section at the top there's a lot of talk about TEQSA. If you're confused, here's their webpage. Jason was too sick to do mailbag, but please keep sending in your letters and speak pipes!At we swi...

1 year ago

1 hour 48 minutes

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The sweet, sweet taste of academic freedom

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason are at the end of the holidays. For Jason this meant going to a hash den in Thailand (it's a long story) and for Inger it meant organising all her rococo style porcelain figurines (yes, really).The mailbag (18:53) is full of interesting letters and provokes only one moment of feminist rage from Inger. Ok, maybe two. In the Work Problems segment (56:35) Jason gives us an alternative way to think about the year ahead with the V...

1 year ago

1 hour 52 minutes

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The unexpected Christmas Day episode!

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason recorded an episode at 9pm at night on the 15th of November, before Inger took off for the UK. Inger was meant to edit and post this sometime in December, while travelling in the UK, but due to the vagaries of wifi and Christmas shopping, she ended up doing it at Heathrow airport on Christmas eve. So look, it's a little bit ... unplugged? But at least it's short (well, for us) and there's some good stuff in here - including a...

1 year ago

1 hour 6 minutes