On the reg

Topics discussed in this podcast include sailing adventures, vegan pizzas, buying a Tesla as a midlife crisis car, the Bullet Journal method, using symbols in a bullet journal, the power of reflection, migrating to a paper system, and using washi tape in a bullet journal.

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason have both been dealing with challenges. For Inger it's finding time to work on her romance novels when doing a 37.5 hour week entirely on Zoom. She did, however, manage to get on Etsy and buy angry uterus stickers for her bullet journal.Jason is in Covid lockdown - again! But at least he got to take the tinny (that's a small, metal boat for non-Australian listeners) out with Shainal. The maiden voyage taught Shainal Jnr the importance of going to the bathroom before heading out in Port Phillip bay shipping lanes in 20 knot winds... Jason also answers the question: 'Can you get pulled over by the authorities when you are in a boat?' As it turns out, yes. Twice. Inger does a deep dive on University Bullshit, thanks to a great paper by Ian McCarthy, David Hannaha, Leyland Pitt and Jane M. McCarthy called "Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit”. The paper is a brilliant explanation of bullshit and offers a framework to recognise and offers the 'CRAP' framework for dealing with it. The duo agree that managing to do a serious academic paper with the words 'crap' and 'bullshit' in it is a next level academic practice. Jason then follows up with a paper on whether or not speaking a lot in meetings is a good idea.In our 2 minute tip section, Jason shares a top tip for using your bullet journal to give you a more realistic sense of your accomplishments and Inger gloats (just a little bit) about how many bookshelves there are in her new office.We went long on this one and, honestly, Inger enjoyed it so much she did barely any snippety-doo-dah. Cue this one up for a long drive, a big gardening clean up session or epic list of house hold chores!Links to stuff we mentioned in this episode:The Bullet Journal website Paper: "Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit” (paywalled)Ian McCarty Jnr's video eGot 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

Explore a unique approach to goal setting with insights from a personal Bullet Journal method. The hosts discuss overcoming addiction to social media and share strategies for a healthier online experience. One dives into the complexities of discussing racism, highlighting small actionable steps for progress. Humor and camaraderie shine as they reflect on life transitions, from boat licenses to the challenges of self-publishing. Plus, practical tips for managing notifications and enhancing productivity keep things engaging and relatable.

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and jason have had a holiday - sort of. A lot of it seemed to involve making a dash for state borders before they closed... Jason bought a drone and Inger bought a mid life crisis car. In our work problems segment, Inger goes deep on the problem of rest, specifically, why she finds it hard and why that's not her fault. The discussion ranges broadly from bespoke chairs and elbow patches to how not to do your email on a Sunday night, via detours into pay rates for young architects and how to talk to your boss about how you spend your time. We end with a suggestion for a 'micro-activism' campaign, but we couldn't think up a good hashtag.We didn't really get around to other books, although Jason does mention he's got 'The Bullet Journal' on the go and we take a question from one of our listeners about 'The 7 habits of highly effective people' - on notice.Mentioned; ‘Rest: why you get more done when you work less’ by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.'Work's intimacy' by Melissa Gregg'Why anxiety might be your superpower' - thesis whisperer postHow to use the mac text transform optionGot 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

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!It's our last episode for 2020 (don't worry, we'll be back. Jason can't get out of it now).Jason is finishing one job and starting another with a listening tour. The Jeep just got another upgrade with a lighting bar that promises to shine like 1000 suns - as soon as he gets the electrician in. He's looking forward to his holiday in South Australia because he's exhausted and ready for a holiday, even from podcasting. Meanwhile Inger is still running full tilt to the 2020 finish line, with a Thesis Bootcamp to run next week and a couple of books to get out the door (if Taylor Swift can drop a second superb album in 2020, there is no excuse for the rest of us). Mr Thesis Whisperer is trying to offset the inevitable end of 2020 crash and burn by buying her a Sun Lounger, which has become her new outdoor office. She then gives Jason a brief run through of Canberra parking problems (which aren't really problems, but it's all relative).In our work problem segment, Jason reflects on what it's like to start a new job when it's actually your old job, as he prepares to go back to the RMIT business school after a couple of years working in a central management role. The pair reflect on the difficulty of leading complex organisations in a time of Covid and the problem of 'cultural land mines' that you can set off if you don't listen carefully to what other people are worried about.Jason then wonders why he is so fucking exhausted, and does a deep dive on the subject of burnout. He points out that most clickbait articles on the internet frame burn out as a matter of individual responsibility, but is it really? After reading 6 pages of Jenny Odell's 'How to do nothing' book sent him into the academic literature about 'work life balance' and finds out some interesting things about how management style, particularly an attitude towards competition, contributes to burn out.  Which leads us to the depressing conclusion that academia has burn out built into its very DNA.Inger's 'to be read' pile is too big now, but she is finding time for romance novels, specifically re-reading Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series. She's excited the Shona Rhimes series of the books is dropping on Netflix on Christmas day because Shonda is hashtag genius. She has big plans to watch the series the day it comes out, with her twin sister, in her pyjamas. She then shares Gretchen McCulloch's article “A Mission to Make Virtual Parties Actually Fun” and describes 'Gathertown' - a hybrid video game/conferencing software, which The Research Whisperers used to host a super fun party. In two minute tips, Jason shares a scheduling hack to make sure your devices never run out of power and Inger shares how she's plGot 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

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger has a big news for Jason - but you'll have to listen for about six minutes before we got to the point. Enjoy!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

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This recording was made from a live taping session during 'Whisperfest 2020' in front of a live crowd of around 70 people on Zoom.  In this episode, Jason and Inger tell their origin story, although they argue about the dried apricot analogy bit. Inger outs Jason as being 'Dave' in her most popular Thesis Whisperer post ever: 'The Valley of Shit'. Dave is internet famous because this post has more downloads than any other and - more importantly - has been spotted stuck to the back of doorways in university bathroom stalls. In the work problems segment, the duo tackle other people's problems, including how much to invest in software that your organisation won't provide to you, being your own PR rep, setting boundaries around social media and their top 3 favourite pieces of software that aren't Omnifocus. If you want to be on the Reg like Kate Gambier was, leave a message for the team on Speakpipe.Jason chooses three mac apps: Horo, Divvy, Hazel and the paper based Chronodex system.Inger chooses two mac apps Scrivener and the Timing app and name checks her awesome Twitter brains trust.Jason has ruled out Inger counting audio books as reading, so she can't review Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump, niece of that orange guy who used to be president (which is a pity, because it's amazing and like TOTALLY explains what is happening in the US right now). Jason has started reading Anti-Fragile: things that gain from disorder by Nassim Taleb, although he's finding the tiny text size annoying. Inger is reading Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastoni and is not sure if she should take it seriously or not. In her review she quotes from a 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

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!We start by taking a moment to acknowledge that The Trump presidency has come to an end, ignominiously, in front of a landscape gardening gardening business, next to the 'Fantasy Island' adult bookstore in downtown Philly. Inger cried! How good is the first woman being a VP in the USA?! And how amazingly great is it that she's not white? As Inger's sister puts it,  2020 delivers a crowd pleasing plot twist, right at the end of the season.It's a bit busy in Inger's world now that everyone else has finished the semester. Jason is still dealing with the RMIT redundancy saga, but at least he can now go camping with his new Jeep tent thingy. We both own up to having irresponsible online shopping habits and Covid is TOTALLY to blame.Inger does a deep dive on the impossibility of managing projects with gantt charts and what the research suggests about how to deal with research project uncertainty. Turns out, there are a lot of strategies that researchers can employ to manage the 'chaotic, turbulent' change that is characteristic of research projects. Jason points out the academic discipline of business studies already knew heaps about this project management stuff, it's just that Inger never thought to ask.We both admit that we have not been able to read anything with the biggest election in the world looming over our heads, but have instead been glued to Twitter - so we share some of our recent favourite follows instead. Jason has discovered a cool new app, which he talks about in the two minute tips section, while Inger shares her mindful, end of the day ritual.We end by reading out a lovely reader review - if you leave one, we will read that out too! Don't forget our next podcast will be a live event - link is below. See you there...LinksJoin us on the 24th of November for a live taping of 'On The Reg' as part of Whisperfest 2020 - if you can't make it, you can leave us a question on SpeakPipeNot fake news: (hopefully) final Trump team presser next to adult book store How to make a simple Gantt Chart - The Research Whisperer blogPaper from 2002: ‘a framework for project management under uncGot 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

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is emerging from Lockdown, getting a long over due hair cut and having cross-town adventures in his Jeep. Inger is despairing over Thesis Whisperer Jnr's decision to 'rest' from Uni again and tells us how she misread an important dress code by turning up to a Greens party celebration in Liberal party blue. Both of us agree that not much work is being done in universities while people are struggling with restructures and lay offs, but we are strangely ok with that. At least our inboxes are mostly empty.Speaking of email, in our re-jigged work problems section, email is the theme of the day. Jason does a deep dive on research on email and outlines how to save 9 weeks of work by adopting a few simple strategies.In our reading section, Inger is struggling to get through Cal Newport's 'Digital Minimalism' (mainly because she doesn't want to do the digital detox he suggests), while Jason is deriving lessons in resilience from Colonel Hackworth.Finally, Inger shares some more 2 minute calendar tips while Jason reminds us of the old time 'four square' app and how it can be used as your own Covid tracing app. Jason saves you more time and money by pointing us at the 'Alternative To' website.We went long on this one again - what can we say, we love to chat! Around 30 minutes has been cut out of this episode, but hopefully you won't even notice where Inger did her snippety-do-dah thing :-)Mentioned in this episodeHow to spend way less time on email - Harvard Business Review Email - not dead, evolving - Harvard Business ReviewInfoClick - email organisational software for the MacTotally Under Control - a documentary about the Covid Pandemic in the USA. Here's a review on the Atlantic.Digital Minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world - Cal Newport Deep Questions Podcast by Cal NewportAbout Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by David HackworthAnylist - the shopping app Inger uses with her familyhttps://alternativeto.net - crowdGot 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

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This episode carries a content warning... best not to listen if hearing about the pain of losing a job is triggering for you.Jason's job has been 'dis-established' and we get real with the state of universities and what it's like to lose a job you love. In this epic, no holds barred discussion Inger recounts her perception-shifting experience of being unfairly treated as a young academic and Jason reflects on how to approach work when you have had the veil ripped from your eyes. We went long on this one - it ended up being 1hr and 45m  - so we’ve edited for length. Our regular ‘work problems’ segment has been snippety-doo-dah’d and we’ll hold it over for next episode where we’ll double down on practical, implementable productivity hacks to help you live a more balanced life.Jason mentions:The Precariat: the new dangerous class by Guy StandingInger mentions:How to be an academic - her (now poorly named!) book where she talks about the university as a bad boyfriendCal Newport's latest podcast Episode 32 Habit tune up.How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project - Elizabeth HumphreysHer nice new desk lamp that doubles as a Zoom lighting rig (Instagram)‘Is it Do You Have ‘Zoom Fatigue’ or Is It Existentially Crushing to Pretend Life Is Normal as the World Burns?’ by Devon Price Digital Minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world - Cal Newport John Perry’s structured procrastination essayGot 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