PODCAST · education
On the reg
by Thesiswhisperer
Inger and Jason talk about work, but you know - not in a boring way. Practical, implementable productivity hacks to help you live a more balanced life. Find us at ontheregteam.com
Episodes
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 [email protected] Watch this episode on YouTube The banter section of this episode is lost to…
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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!...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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Hot academic gossip and the Circle of Niceness
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! This one has been in the can for a while - but it was recorded only a week after the previous one about the Meat Grinder. You'd think that would make the banter session shorter, but ...not really. Jason has largely avoided having his face...
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The meat grinder
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason are back, a bit later than anticipated because the audio the first time this episode was recorded was borked (that's a technical term). We promise the re-record is much better, and also, much longer. There's some unscripted…
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Is productivity talk the new veganism?
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! The Downs household has suffered a loss, while one member of the Mewburn household has discovered hither to unknown talents. Somehow the team still end up crapping about Obsidian a lot in the banter section. This is our second sabbatical…
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The one about Stephen Hawking's dining habits
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! WE'RE BACK BABY! Inger sums up her whole Cambridge University experience in one anecdote about dinner. Jason has gone up a notch in Brazilian Ju Jitsu, which puts him in a position to comment on Mark Zuckerberg's training routine. In other…
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Please keep sending in your questions!
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason pop in for a brief, 2 minute-ish pod. The quickest episode in OTR pod history! It's not really an episode, just a reminder that we will be back next month. Thanks for all the amazing emails and speak pipes so far - we're…
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Don't you forget about us!
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! On The Reg is officially on hiatus until Inger returns from her sabbatical in August. Listen to our quick explainer so you know what is happening until then. We're asking you send in all your questions and thoughts so we can put together a…
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How big things get done (or not)
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger's dusty in this episode, after an epic David Lodge style dinner party the night before, but her blood pressure is the best her doctor has seen in years. By the time you listen to this she'll be in Cambridge, punting or something. Jason...
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How to get to inbox zero and other stories
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has been doing BJJ, the gym, eat sleep and repeat - with an occasional visit to country Victoria. Inger has been doing ALL the event organising and somehow managing to make a podcast with her sister about the Apple TV show Severance at…
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The weapons of influence
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger's happy her Apple Watch has declared her 'fit' while Jason surprised his team with actually putting on an interesting strategy day. Inger finally bought a ticket to the UK for her sabbatical in Cambridge, so Jason is on notice that the…
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Strategic Thinking for Fun and Profit
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger was late to the microphone but Jason is in the lead this time, so the show actually happened! Jason didn't win at the first annual 'Meat Off' competition, but it was a tough field. At work it's all Chat GPT all the time, or, as Inger's...
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Getting Sh!t done in 2023!
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason have been on holidays, so there's a lot to catch up on. Jason was off the grid, finding boxes of romance novels in country opp shops while Inger borked all the authenticator apps on her phone and was locked out of ANU email....
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AI: a pearl clutching panic fest, or are the robots really coming for our jobs?
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! You might have noticed this episode is rather... long. But it's your last episode before February, 2023. so we figure you can digest this omnibus episodes in parts! Look, there's a lot of Spider Talk in our catch up, so you might want to skip…
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Starting new things - what are the pain points?
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger's had Covid Bingo, where she scored almost every symptom in the book. Meanwhile Jason has been been out there, having a life, which involves a story about the physics of gumboots. It makes sense in context, we promise. Inger snippety...
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Twitter is a hot mess - do we have to start Tootin' on the Masty now?
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Buckle up folks, this is a long one! It's been a big couple of weeks since Jason and Inger caught up. Inger went to Tassie and experienced crossing bass strait in gale force winds on the way back while Jason got rained on while camping and...
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Where Jason and Inger go WAY too deep on Obsidian
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason catch up to get their nerd on HARD in this episode - you have been warned. After the usual catch up - with only a little bit of old person health problems - Inger reads out some nice feedback (17:50). People loved our last…
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Building a second brain (for writing)
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! There's a lot of sweary words in this one, headphones in! Inger brought a sword to work and Jason is back on the mats at Brazillian Ju Jitsu (BJJ) so it's business as usual at On The Reg. Big shout out to Jason's wife Cath, who has nearly...
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The 80/20 principle: is this book bullshit?
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason have been busy, you know - the usual. Inger has been deep in three minute thesis land (ie: the annual ANU 'high school musical') and Jason paid $250 to learn he doesn't have to have surgery (yay!). There's only a little bit of...
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The Thieves of Time?
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason are both complaining about their health again. Jason has 'mild degeneration' of his shoulder joint and Inger has 'mild degeneration' of her eye lens. The duo agree that it means they are falling apart, but as Jason says '…
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Applying 'Extreme Ownership' to your career: are you an elbow patcher or an entrepreneur?
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason catch up on Inger's 24th wedding anniversary (with Mr Thesis Whisperer's permission!). Inger went to Newcastle in the Tesla and had fun doing a workshop in a bathroom. It's been a weird couple of weeks: she also encountered…
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How Atomic Habits can make your writing life easier
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has Novid now, but he dragged himself to the mic. Inger’s been sick again and, honestly - the first 20 minutes or so of this podcast is just ‘old people complaining about their health’ (but we know some of you really like that stuff, so…
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IS this book bullshit? Habit Three of the seven habits of highly effective people
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason and Inger are behind on their podcasting schedule because Inger had Not-Covid/ Not-flu and too sick to record last Sunday. Meanwhile Jason has injured himself at Brazilian Ju Jitsu - again. Jason texts a picture of his inner thigh to…
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Revisiting the bullet journal and seven varieties of stupidity
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason are back to their usual format now the election is done. This is the first weekend in 18 months that Inger doesn't have any political activism planned for the weekend - and she is happy about the election result because a well...
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Hunky fire fighters and and existential crisis over bacon and eggs
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Warning - there's a LOT of swearing in this one, so if there are sensitive little ears present, maybe save it till later... We recorded this on the 10th of April as Scott Morrison called the election. It's another short one as Inger was already...
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Someone needs to call the election because we are exhausterated
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! We've been busy, but you know - in a good way. Inger and Jason are both exhausterated - both exhausted and exhilarated at the same time. Sort of like how you feel after a good workout. Jason has started his new job at Latrobe, where he has an...
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Inger and Jason talk about work, but you know - not in a boring way. Practical, implementable productivity hacks to help you live a more balanced life. Find us at ontheregteam.com
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