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 Textexpander and Omnifocus and how we still feel the love heart emoji eyes for both programs.
The competitive book club continues. Inger describes an article about why we feel deflated in times of upheaval and that to do about it. Jason has put down his book about Colonel Hackwell in favour of reading about 'The Precariat' and an article entitled '100 productivity hacks', which rates hacks on degree of difficulty and will power required to implement them.
This naturally leads to a conversation about coffee and Inger makes a surprising confession about Navy Seal Romance books. We close out with advice on how to under function in public and how to seize that opportunity for individual learning and growth.
In this episode we referred to:
Deep Questions Podcast by Cal Newport
Your surge capacity is depleted, which is why you feel awful by Tara Healle
Guy Standing’s TEDx presentation about the 'Precariat';
The Tall Dark and Dangerous Books By Suzanne Brockamnn
The Definitive 100 most useful productivity tips;
And you can buy the PDF version of Inger's 'Tame your PhD' ebook straight from the Thesis Whisperer blog here.
Note: in this article we did disuss how only men can be Navy SEALS. This is not strictly true as women have been able to apply since 2016, but so far the one woman who has made it through decided being a SEAL was not for her (a pity, because Inger would have totally loved a 'gender flipped' Navy SEAL romance). This fact does mean, however, that Inger is still correct about the peer reviewed advice about the exact dosage of caffeine being a man sized serving :-)
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