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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

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