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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

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- 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.

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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

Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on

- 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 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

- 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