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On the reg

By: Thesiswhisperer
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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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Episodes
  • If AI is the hammer, do we have the right nails?
    Sep 21 2025

    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 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




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    2 hrs and 7 mins
  • Analogue Productivity - is this book bullshit?
    Aug 17 2025

    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




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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Tiny Experiments (and larger rants)
    Jul 19 2025

    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 Rant about how Inger's anti-AI academic friends now think she is a Republican... it's a lot.

    Things we mention:

    • Pop Canberra (for the stickers)
    • Fated Mates romance podcast stickers
    • Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab
    • OmniFocus
    • On The Reg Mind Sweep Bot
    • Getting Things Done (book)
    • Ben Kraal's OTR episode with Inger
    • How to Make Notes and Write (book)
    • Literary Theory for Robots (book)
    • The Utopia of Rules (book)
    • Evelyn Frost books
    • Analogue Productivity (book)
    • Rethinking Repair (paper)
    • On the reg Structured Dialogical Inquiry Bot
    • Tiny Experiments (book)
    • Listen Later (app)
    • On The Reg on Linkedin


    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




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    1 hr and 45 mins
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