The one about Stephen Hawking's dining habits

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Aug 8, 2023

In this podcast, the hosts discuss their experience at a high table dinner at Cambridge, stalking each other on Instagram, their gym routines, and progress in martial arts. They also cover the impact of book recommendations, challenges of taking a proper lunch break, using writing trackers and spreads, responsible tech disposal, automating note-taking and organization using Obsidian, and their frustrations with Twitter.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

High Table Dinner at Cambridge

01:32 • 19min

Instagram stalking, work updates, and gym routines

20:44 • 2min

Progress in martial arts and the importance of learning

22:33 • 5min

Book recommendation impact and upcoming mailbag segment

27:54 • 2min

The Lunch Break Challenge

29:31 • 18min

Using a Writing Tracker and Semester at a Glance Spread

47:49 • 11min

Benefits of Backup Devices and Responsible Tech Disposal

58:47 • 18min

Automating Note-Taking and Second Brain Workflow

01:17:16 • 15min

Using Obsidian for Note-Taking and Organization

01:32:01 • 4min

Closing Our Twitter Account

01:36:17 • 5min

Discussion about App Usage, Conversation Thread, and Podcast Recording Platform

01:40:52 • 2min

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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 words, it's a normal catch up, but twice as long!

This episode is all a mailbag, starting with a speak pipe from Jonathan O'Donnell challenging the team to regular lunches and a content warning at 30 minutes about weight talk. If you don't want to hear a discussion about losing weight, skip ahead to 40 :46.

We follow with a letter from Alessa Teunisse about Bullet Journalling with all kinds of #bujo spreads to share. At 58:40 we get to a speak pipe from Ben Archer, who is asking about old technology and what to with it At 1 hour 17 minutes with a letter from Marcel Cardinali with all kinds of cool automations in Obsidian.

In the reading segment at 1 hour 27 minutes, the team tease their new book project. Finally, two minute tips happens at 1 hour 32, In the sign off, we explain that @thesiswhisperer on Twitter will shortly be shut down. If you're one of the 52,000 odd followers to that account, have a look below for other options.

Oh - and the first two episodes of the Academics talk about Severance pod have finally dropped! Listen and subscribe here.

Things we mentioned:
Google document with the images from Alessa and Marcel
Focussed pod and yearly wall calendar
Sadie James art from Ningaloo reef
E-waste donation in Canberra
Automater app Jason used to create his Fantasia File Problem
David Kadavy: Mind Management not Time Management
Inger's video about Obsidian plug ins for Zotero
Joplin app for transferring Evernote data

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