On the reg
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 otr-team.com
Episodes
69 episodes
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 69
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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...
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Season 5
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Episode 68
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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...
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Season 5
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Episode 67
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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 (
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Season 5
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Episode 66
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1:34:38
The body keeps the score
Jason is having some time off work to get his health back in order. Inger takes the opportunity to share the whole story of her burn out episode. Be warned, this one gets a bit heavy...We lighten it up in the middle by responding to Ben...
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Season 5
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Episode 65
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1:48:47
Trusting the Meat Computer
Inger and Jason convene for the long awaited mailbag episode! (but first there's a bit of old-person whinging about health and other stuff). Inger explains how she and Narelle wrote a 36000 word book in a single weekend with Claude.
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Season 5
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Episode 64
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2:02:49
Obsidian! 1996 called and it wants its database back.
It's been quite the month. Jason was pulled over in the Tinny (again), Inger had a mole taken off her foot. We skipped the mailbag in favour of a deep nerd chat about Obsidian starting at 32:51. Th...
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1:55:39
What we are doing with GenAI now... (it's pretty cool)
Jason had pneumonia when he recorded this very long pod with Inger. It's a testament to his brainy-ness (and Inger's sound engineering skills) that it turned out as well as it did, given he coughed and sweated his way through it.
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Season 5
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Episode 52
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1:48:16
The sweet, sweet taste of academic freedom
Inger and Jason are at the end of the holidays. For Jason this meant going to a hash den in Thailand (it's a long story) and for Inger it meant organising all her rococo style porcelain figurines (yes, really).The mailbag (18:53) is ful...
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Season 5
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Episode 51
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1:52:12
The unexpected Christmas Day episode!
Inger and Jason recorded an episode at 9pm at night on the 15th of November, before Inger took off for the UK. Inger was meant to edit and post this sometime in December, while travelling in the UK, but due to the vagaries of wifi and Christmas...
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1:06:11
Hot academic gossip and the Circle of Niceness
This one has been in the can for a while - but it was recorded only a week after the previous one about the Meat Grinder. You'd think that would make the banter session shorter, but ...not really. Jason has largely avoided having his face squis...
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Season 4
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Episode 55
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1:47:19
The meat grinder
Inger and Jason are back, a bit later than anticipated because the audio the first time this episode was recorded was borked (that's a technical term). We promise the re-record is much better, and also, much longer.There's some unscript...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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1:57:12
Is productivity talk the new veganism?
The Downs household has suffered a loss, while one member of the Mewburn household has discovered hither to unknown talents. Somehow the team still end up crapping about Obsidian a lot in the banter section. This is our second sabbatica...
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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1:51:41
The one about Stephen Hawking's dining habits
WE'RE BACK BABY!Inger sums up her whole Cambridge University experience in one anecdote about dinner. Jason has gone up a notch in Brazilian Ju Jitsu, which puts him in a position to comment on Mark Zuckerberg's training routine. In oth...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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1:42:32
Please keep sending in your questions!
Inger and Jason pop in for a brief, 2 minute-ish pod. The quickest episode in OTR pod history! It's not really an episode, just a reminder that we will be back next month. Thanks for all the amazing emails and speak pi...
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1:53
Don't you forget about us!
On The Reg is officially on hiatus until Inger returns from her sabbatical in August. Listen to our quick explainer so you know what is happening until then. We're asking you send in all your questions and thoughts so we can put togethe...
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11:32
How to get to inbox zero and other stories
Jason has been doing BJJ, the gym, eat sleep and repeat - with an occasional visit to country Victoria. Inger has been doing ALL the event organising and somehow managing to make
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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1:50:17
The weapons of influence
Inger's happy her Apple Watch has declared her 'fit' while Jason surprised his team with actually putting on an interesting strategy day. Inger finally bought a ticket to the UK for her sabbatical in Cambridge, so Jason is on notice that the po...
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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1:38:50
Strategic Thinking for Fun and Profit
Inger was late to the microphone but Jason is in the lead this time, so the show actually happened! Jason didn't win at the first annual 'Meat Off' competition, but it was a tough field. At work it's all Chat GPT all the time, or,...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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1:51:32
Getting Sh!t done in 2023!
Inger and Jason have been on holidays, so there's a lot to catch up on. Jason was off the grid, finding boxes of romance novels in country opp shops while Inger borked all the authenticator apps on her phone and was locked out of ANU email.&nbs...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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1:44:10
AI: a pearl clutching panic fest, or are the robots really coming for our jobs?
You might have noticed this episode is rather... long. But it's your last episode before February, 2023. so we figure you can digest this omnibus episodes in parts!Look, there's a lot of Spider Talk in our catch up, so you m...
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Season 3
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Episode 48
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2:19:35
Starting new things - what are the pain points?
Inger's had Covid Bingo, where she scored almost every symptom in the book. Meanwhile Jason has been been out there, having a life, which involves a story about the physics of gumboots. It makes sense in context, we promise.Inger snippe...
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Season 3
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Episode 47
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1:51:12
Twitter is a hot mess - do we have to start Tootin' on the Masty now?
Buckle up folks, this is a long one! It's been a big couple of weeks since Jason and Inger caught up. Inger went to Tassie and experienced crossing bass strait in gale force winds on the way back while Jason got rained on while ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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2:15:49
Where Jason and Inger go WAY too deep on Obsidian
Inger and Jason catch up to get their nerd on HARD in this episode - you have been warned. After the usual catch up - with only a little bit of old person health problems - Inger reads out some nice feedback (17:50). People loved our la...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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1:47:12