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Why that book about Bullshit Jobs is not, in fact, bullshit.

Jason is dying of a cold. Inger is surrounded by an ocean of redundancies at ANU. Anyone would think winter was coming, but no - it's the start of Spring (at least here in the Southern Hemisphere).After a bit of mutual whingeing on the ...

November 02, 2024 • Season 5 • Episode 70 • 1:43:22

The Kitchen Table sessions (volume one)

The OTR team have been travelling around the country, and around the world, delivering workshop goodness. Jason was temporarily at the Canberra Branch of OTR Team on the way back from a Sydney gig, so Inger set up a podcast studio from ...

October 04, 2024 • Season 5 • Episode 69 • 1:33:19

The Pain Sponge (or how to be a less crap academic manager)

Jason is living his best life, free of Latrobe - but Inger has immediately put him to work! On The Reg Team, their new consulting company, is struggling to life through multiple stages of paperwork. More to come...The team talk about va...

August 29, 2024 • Season 5 • Episode 68 • 1:54:48

Is this book bullshit? Cal Newport discovers the labour movement

The On The Reg team have been busy with All The Things. In Jason's case, making salami and in Inger's case, possibly signing up to one too many book projects.In the mailbag we marvel over dashboards for packing lists and cool new AI too...

July 28, 2024 • Season 5 • Episode 67 • 1:52:41

The mean girl in the internet of things

Jason has consciously uncoupled from his employer. Inger's getting a Volvo. There is clearly a lot to discuss in the first half an hour, including the survey that Inger finally has out (

June 30, 2024 • Season 5 • Episode 66 • 1:34:38

Fan Mail

Hi Inger and Jason! This is a new and exciting way to contact you. I have a work problem. I am a researcher working at a nonprofit but I am academic adjacent. I do many projects with academics all over the place. If everyone I worked with was in our "family" I could easily solve my problem in MS Teams using the planner app with a kanban board. The issue is that I'm working with lots of groups of people in different iterations who work in different environments. I have so many projects all with notes and documents in different places. I want a central place to manage everything that I can share with team members. But to be able to adjust permissions about who can see what. Because all the people in Team A doing project A don't need to see all the things for project B (which some of them are part of but not all of them). This is a roundabout way of asking, how can you manage multiple projects with multiple people in different universities (all with different systems)? Is this possible? Much nerdy love, Alessa Teunisse (turn-iss-ah) (Your bujo loving friend 😊)

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