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The bullet journal episode you've all been asking for!

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! What would a bullet journal look like if you designed it specifically for doing a PhD?In this episode, Inger and Jason crack open a brand-new bullet journal and build one from scratch. Jason tries to narrate as we go, but this one is probably a lot more enjoyable on Youtube, where you can see what we are doing... watch it here They cover the basics — daily logs, monthly spreads, collections, indexing and threading — then start adding tools specifically for researchers. Along the way they explore concept maps, the “bedraggled daisy” for finding your research niche, reading metadata, supervision notes, tracking academic service and expenses, and creating a master index across years of notebooks. They also get distracted by AI and learning, supervision calendars, stickers, small dogs, Rococo ladies and the surprisingly important question of whether fleas explain the invention of the lapdog. Links and things mentioned in this episode: The official Bullet Journal website Kirsten Luker — Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences Writing Partners / Shut Up & Write Isabel’s guide to DOIs Zenodo Yap: A Short History of Small Dogs Latte’s Instagram: @coton_lattemewburn Got something to add to the mailbag? Email us at pod@ontheregteam.com. Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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The P in PhD doesn't stand for 'prompt'

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! We’re back! Sort of. Monthly-ish. Regular-ish. With a puppy. In this episode of On the Reg, Inger introduces Latte Sipping Socialist, her new desk dog and emerging productivity expert. Meanwhile Jason has actually been working and explains how ClickUp has become his work gravity well. Then we open the mailbag to discuss: • building a note-taking system when ADHD and object permanence are working against you • combining bullet journals with Zotero, Obsidian and NotebookLM • managing complex or collaborative research projects • Bullet Journal nerdery • Typst as a possible plain-text academic writing tool • cheaper ways to record and edit video • why Monday is obviously the first day of the week Our major work problem is the vexed issue of AI in doctoral education. Should universities restrict generative AI so students still learn the foundational practices of thinking and writing? Or do bans simply drive AI use underground, without guidance or education? We discuss AI dependency, inconsistent policies, writing as thinking, assessment reform, oral examinations, the future of the dissertation and whether academic writing may become the intellectual equivalent of artisanal stonemasonry. There are no easy answers. There is, however, a small brown-and-white dog who looks suspiciously AI-generated... Things we mention: Visit Tiny Latte on Instagram @coton_lattemewburn Download Jason's notes on Claude integration in Clickup Curtis McHale’s website Typist website OBS: Alternative to Riverside: https://obsproject.com Davinci resolve studio Rectangle Window management (for mac and windows): https://rectangleapp.com/ A system for writing by Dotto Rooster TV show on HBO The P In PhD doesn't stand for Prompt BuJo sticker shop Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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A shameless plug!

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger has A Lot Going On At The Moment - and has the tshirt to prove it. Jason's been Getting Things Done, even if his fridge broke. Things have been better in OTR land, but an episode was finally recorded! There's a lot of chat in this one because the mail bag was, as usual, excellent. In the work problems segment Inger plugs the new book she's written with Pat Thomson, Helen Kara and Aimee Grant... While the title is boring and the cover is ugly, she thinks the book is actually great. Rebecca sent us in a two minute tip and it's great! You'll have to listen to the end to hear it. Things we mentioned: Inger's Taylor Swift coded tshirt OTRT home page (to see our new logo) QPR conference (we're having a booth!) The new book "Managing your research project" Indyx App (Inger's wardrobe organisation app) Inger's expensive boots And her expensive leather jacket comes from Leatheron Inger's eBay page First edition of How To Fix your Academic Writing Trouble (2nd edition out November this year) Hazel for the Mac Example of a patched in ChatGPT image on Inger's Instagram The Boring Conference Sneeze Count paper A historian's take on LLMs Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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Planning for 2026, fashion influencer style!

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! We're on YouTube! Watch this episode here Vote on Jason's wardrobe edit here (If you want to see Jason's beard, Inger's Pinterest boards and the AI video Inger made to demonstrate Jason's fashion style, jump over there and have a look!) In this episode we discuss Inger's fascination with fashion youtube influencers and what we can learn for planning out the academic / researcher / enterprenerd year. Things we mentioned Inger uses the MiGoals journal in addition to a regular Bullet Journal Working 9 to 5 not a way to make an academic living (Inger's most downloaded academic paper) Blog post: Thesis Prison Book: Tiny Experiments Nest Labs article on Note Takers App: Obsidian and how to back up Obsidian using GitHub Gazman (for the style challenged young man who needs to update their wardrobe for work) Alison Bornstein Internet Personality SUK workwear Inger's Pinterest Boards Claudia Winkelman Jason's wardrobe edit questionnaire Book: Wear it Well by Alison Bornstein Narelle Lemon Book: Objective Secure Book: Measure what matters Book: Building a second brain Kane Murdoch Blog Shout out to Erin from Good Prose Studios for book editing Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

AI SEO - how does ChatGPT talk about you behind your back?

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Hey! Jason will be in the UK in Late April. If you'd like to chat to him about the trip and possibly having him visit you, email us on enquiries@ontheregteam.com Watch this episode on YouTube The banter section of this episode is lost to history because Jason forgot to hit record! After a short intro by Inger, the team go straight into the mail bag. Let's face it, this is the good stuff anyway - who needs Tinny and puppy news? In our work problems segment, we discuss the appearance of ChatGPT as a referrer to the Thesis Whisperer blog and what it might mean for researcher visibility. How does an LLM decide on what is an 'authoritative source' on the internet? Is this a new form of 'research impact' and what should researchers do about it, if anything? This episode also ends abruptly when Inger gets a phone call - the next episode will be much more polished, we promise! Things we mentioned: Tiago Forte's PARA book Blooms Taxonomy Amazing Marvin app Click up app Be visible or vanish book The Enshittification of Academic Social Media Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

Is boredom your academic superpower?

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Welcome to the first Youtube video version of the pod! Watch it here Sorry for the sound quality for the first 10 minutes - promise it gets better when we remembered to turn the mics on! The filming/recording took ages, through many interruptions, and bad technical decisions... so much effort in fact, that we are not sure if we will do it again. Let us know if you like it and we might persist! In this episode we talk about Boredom at work. Inger reads Jason in on the literature and floats her theory that the PhD is an exercise in training boredom tolerance. Things we mentioned: Thesis Whisperer post about boredom in PhD study Savers - the thrifting superstore An academic affair - new romance book set in Australian Academia by Jodie McAllister The Dopamine Brain (book) Enshittification (book) One Battle After Another Tron: Ares Soul by Pixar Scispace AI Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 picture! Things we mentioned: ANU Vice Chancellor resigns Jason and Ginger Cat Blossom - puppy mum to be Rich Academic / Poor Academic Little National Hotel Newcastle Perplexity AI Slides: How to think about AI in the workplace AI as thinking partner framework AI as verifier framework AI as Information Processor Framework How I used Claude as a ready-to-hand technology to help me build a Structured Dialogic Thinking Bot Inger's structured dialogic inquiry bot (free to use) Black Hawk Down Free Time by Jenny Blake The EMyth Breakneck - China's quest to build the future AI as normal technology The communist takeover of universities is imminent The Curated Closet ICE menu bar app Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 segment we talk about Analogue Productivity by Curtis Hale and ask "is this book bullshit?". We conclude it isn't, but Inger tells Jason he doesn't have to read it. Stay tuned for more about what we are reading and two two minute tips (for a change). We were on the clock for this episode, but maybe it's a good think because it's pretty tight and chock full of productivity goodness! Links to stuff In Bed with the Right (podcast) Soak bath house Brisbane Omnishow episode 144 Lynne's post on BASB for teaching How to: Power Automate Old ep: trusting the meat computer Monsters: a fan's dilemma by Clare Dederer Think Again by Adam Grant Hard Fork Podcast and Mechanize Tiny Experiments book OTR linkedin Page Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 stickers Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab OmniFocus On The Reg Mind Sweep Bot Getting Things Done (book) Ben Kraal's OTR episode with Inger How to Make Notes and Write (book) Literary Theory for Robots (book) The Utopia of Rules (book) Evelyn Frost books Analogue Productivity (book) Rethinking Repair (paper) On the reg Structured Dialogical Inquiry Bot Tiny Experiments (book) Listen Later (app) On The Reg on Linkedin Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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) in your own work. The team are looking at a teaching slide deck as they talk, which Inger stupidly altered, so you can't read along... (doh!). But you can see the final version of it, as delivered, here. The pre-print version of the paper about AI that Inger wrote can be retrieved here. Things we mentioned: Reading like a Mongrel Text expander for academics (ebook) Bullet Journal (BuJo) Speechify The art of procrastination (book) Microsoft power automate Migoals journals Mind on Paper (book) Cabells Analytics (for finding journals) Consensus Elicit Semantic Scholar MaxQDA Tailwind The importance of being intereresting (blog post) Cognition in the Wild (book) Patter blog (Home of the Queen: Pat Thomson) Johnny Saldana's coding manual Tiny Experiments (book) Amphetamine (app) Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 save your Higher Ed job... so how do you start your own thing (even if it's just a lifeboat for now). Clearly we had a lot to say because Inger's AirPods gave up before the end! (Inger snippity doo dah'd over half an hour... Sadly, you don't get to hear about Jason painting his boat) Things we mentioned: The first hot cross bun episode (where Jason accidentally bought secular buns) Guardian episode on Australia's obsession with sexy (!?) hot cross bun varieties Jason's pictures of the HCB off and trophy #DemocracySausage price list on Instagram Inger's pictures of her election day work for Pocock List of reading for nurses going into academia (thanks Sally-Anne Wherry!) Timing app and Co-Typist + our TextExpander book MaxQDA tailwind AI assistant and Consensus Goblin tools Do the work by Steven Pressfield Inger's enshittification post Xero and Paris Financial Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 dissection of chapter one of Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. This is the third time we've talked about this book, and we're only now doing Habit One: proactivity ... look, we have a lot to say! Check out episode 17, where we discuss how the book is really Mormonism pretending to be productivity, and chapter 38 where we talk about chapter three. Be warned - it gets very deep and meaningful. In fact, we get so into it that we forgot to do a two minute tip! We'll make it up to you, we promise. Things we mention Previous discussions of 7 Habits: episode 17 and chapter 38 Academic Mean Girls Inger reckons Andy Kirk is your go to for Data visualisation Back to Zero - the paper Book: The voices within: the history and science of how we talk to ourselves Book: Team Dog Book: The presentation of self in everyday life The Valley of Shit (blog post about Jason when he was doing his PhD) Book: Striking Ore: the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara Book: Enemy Feminisms How to become a straight A student A world without email Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 literature'. Finally we talk about how many books we own: how much is too many and when/how should you slim down a collection? Inger feels better about her massive collection when she compares herself to Umberto Eco, and Jason has a mild panic attack at the idea of putting together a display shelf. We finish with a tribute to the late, great Professor Peter Elbow (one of Inger's most beloved writers about writing) and a two minute tip about buying study aids. Note, we were going to try to put out a video version of this one - but there were technical problems. Hence the references to showing the camera books. We will try again next time. What we talked about Cornell template technique Note taking Matrix instructions Umberto Eco in his 50,000 book library (video evidence!) Marie Kondo's life changing magic of tidying up Rebecca Yarros - The Fourth Wing Writing without Teachers Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 (it seems) has a frighteningly good grasp of the problems of late stage capitalism. We're talking about the pressures of the sector, work burn out and health, so if you'd rather not listen to that, skip to our reading segment where Inger convinces Jason to read another romance novel! We close out with a brief chat about Omnifocus (again!) Things we mentioned: Coton De Trulear (dog breed) Tofu Eating Wokerati comment Migoals daily planner Todoist Zoe Podcast Generative AI for academics Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 about the idea of 'technology stacks', zero-ing in on OmniFocus as a project management tool. Inger's read a shit ton of books and both have a two minute tip, for once. Happy Christmas listening everyone! We talked about... If you’re interested in the idea of Bali Bootcamp, you can express interest here. Writing partners Inger’s new Volvo EX30 Scrivener Zotero Obsidian Omnifocus Text Expander Tiny Take Buzzsprout ANU woes Omni show Checklist manifesto The art of explanation Extra Focus, the Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD Writing for Busy Readers Elastic Habits Paper about ChatGPT expecting you to be helpful: Usage-based constructionist approaches and large language models Mappify Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 and such. All good stuff. Thank you for making us smarter everyone! In the work problems segment, Inger tells Jason all about her theory of why LLMs and AI are not going to take our jobs. Something, something Capitalism doesn't want us to have no money, something. To support her theory, she leans heavily on David Graeber's excellent book 'Bullshit Jobs' and of course, our friend ChattieG. No time for what we are reading (again!) but Jason does drop the knowledge on 'OmniBuJo' and how to create custom perspectives that act like Bullet Journal spreads. Mostly though, we are just pleased we got through this episode with Jason fully coughing up a lung. Enjoy! Stuff we talked about: Chat GPT is the best teammate Why people hide their use of AI OpenAI is burning money Bullshit jobs - the original essay Bullshit Jobs - the book Inger's notes towards a theory of LLMs and Bullshit Jobs Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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 (ChatGPT) helped us with the work problems segment. Chattie had some thoughts why some people have a hard time doing the low key writing exercises Inger has in her workshops. Turns out, the perfectionism is real. This one is off the hook people. We were constantly interrupted by meetings, Thesiswhisperer family members making coffee and the dishwasher being on in the next room. Despite all this, the sound was... not too bad! Things we mentioned Rich Academic / Poor Academic Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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 before the team embark on the central question: how can you be a less crap manager in academia? God knows, we need them - we have many Thoughts. Reading hasn't been high on the agenda, but there's still a two minute tip or two at the end! Stuff we mentioned: Inger's blog post on how AI is saving her 12 hours a week Alison Hardy's podcast @thehulry on Threads Open AI is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion - Wired Magazine Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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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 checks Marx. The team segue onto an article about workplace burnout, which is a good pastry course accompaniment. There's some two minute tip action at the end where Inger confesses that she's now in a love triangle with ChattieG and Claude. Hey - we teach workshops now! If you want us to come to your uni, check out what we do! Stuff we mentioned: Boring headshots Level up your essays Chipolo The Helmut Rosa book Daniel recommended was 'Social Acceleration' Expanso Alternativeto.net Consensus Teachable Slow Professor Bristol Stool Chart Cal Newport's podcast Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance The Extended Mind Inger's survey of academic work Slow professor review on Thesis Whisperer 5 ways to deal with burn out at work Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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 Intelligence and we have a chat about AI, privacy and the fact that Inger seems to be saving 12 hours a week by outsourcing to Claude... Jason had to go to coffee, so there was no time for mailbag, but if you have kids, stick around for a top tip about AI study buddies! Stuff we mentioned: Kaitlin Salze's omni focus website Trippit Apple intelligence video Blue Ribbon Foundation Style: 10 lessons in clarity and grace (so expensive! Library I reckon) (Inger's survey on academic work) Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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