Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason's been sailing around in his tinny (with and without thongs) and Dj'ing on a ship that only serves vegan pizzas. Inger ordered a mid life crisis car and is looking forward to driving her new Tesla on sunlight and unicorn farts. In this episode we do a synchronised deep dive on the Bullet Journal (#bujo) method by Ryder Carroll. We talk about each of the key concepts and how we have enacted them in our own productivity systems. At the end...
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 16
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 im...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason are now fully back at work. Jason is is relieved people have welcomed him back into his new/old job and got his boat license so he can cruise around Port Phillip Bay. Inger has re-activated her noodle-eating lunching coven, who are keen on her making good on her threat to write a series of Canberra based romance novels called the Professors In Love series. Looks like it's going to be an interesting year. It's Jason's turn to do...
Feb 21, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 14
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 d...
Jan 31, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 13
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 r...
Dec 13, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 Tip...
Nov 29, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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 important...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 ...
Nov 08, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 ...
Oct 25, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 hav...
Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Lockdown continues in Melbourne, but Jason is looking forward to being able to visit his mother in law without being arrested for breaching the Victorian lockdown 5km travel limits. Inger is struggling to tell the difference between Canberra spring hayfever and Covid, as well as the agony of watching her son, who is doing first year uni and not spending long enough on his essays. In our work problems, Jason shares his solo 'academic burning ma...
Sep 13, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! We start with Inger's aborted holiday in a cottage in the country when Thesis Whisperer Jnr and Mr Thesis Whisperer had to be tested for Covid (it's ok, they both had colds, but it's not a pandemic unless you have had something stuck up your nose). Jason is counting the days to the end of the pandemic and smelling the spring flowers as RMIT announces there will be involuntary redundancies. In our work segment we go long and deep on Textexpande...
Aug 30, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! This podcast was the first one recorded with Zencastr , which makes for a slightly nervewracking beginning, but the duo quickly hit their stride. Jason is enduring the Melbourne Covid hard lock down while Inger feels vaguely guilty for being able to get away from the ACT and eat croissants in a country cottage. At work, Jason ponders the problem of the executive summary and Inger shares her stakeholder DANCE steps (and missteps), along the way...
Aug 16, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Where Inger and Jason eventually end up wondering if money is actually real, by way of promotion applications, the appalling badness of ReadCube and an American soldier who really liked to tell his superiors things they did not want to hear. Inger is reading: Just Too Efficient by Tim Bray Jason is reading: About Face by Colonel David Hackworth Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com&...
Aug 02, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger and Jason talk about how work intensification is becoming more and more evident and how this impacts people in different ways - and how to cope. We dive into the topic of internal PR and why that's important - especially in uncertain times. Inger reveals how she REALLY feels about her promotion application to become a professor. Inger is reading: Leaving Academia by Cristopher Caterine - forthcoming from Princeton University Press Jason ...
Jul 19, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Where we talk about committees, working from your car, the 12 cups of coffee method. Oh yeah - plenty of Omnifocus as well. Jason is reading 'Remote: office not required' by Jason Fried at 37Signals. Inger is reading 'Non obvious mega trends: how to see what others miss and predict the future' by Rohit Bhargava Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com> - Leave us a message on www.sp...
Jun 28, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
