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This podcast was the first one recorded with Zencastr, which makes for a slightly nervewracking beginning, but the duo quickly hit their stride. Jason is enduring the Melbourne Covid hard lock down while Inger feels vaguely guilty for being able to get away from the ACT and eat croissants in a country cottage.

At work, Jason ponders the problem of the executive summary and Inger shares her stakeholder DANCE steps (and missteps), along the way convincing Jason to buy one of her favourite books 'Project management for the unofficial project manager'.

On the bookshelf this week, Jason is still powering his way through 'About Face' by Colonel David Hackworth, the ultimate 'soldier's soldier', and reckons he's getting to the good bits about leadership. Inger has taken a lead from Jason and actually finished a book called 'Snobbery' by David Morgan and tells Jason about the idea of inhabiting a 'snobscape.

Two minute tips this week is all about just getting it done. Jason has cleaned his desk (even the 2 year old bits of blue tack) and Inger is trying to avoid endless follow up emails from meetings and confessing to being a piler, not a filer.

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Where Inger and Jason eventually end up wondering if money is actually real, by way of promotion applications, the appalling badness of ReadCube and an American soldier who really liked to tell his superiors things they did not want to hear.

Inger is reading: Just Too Efficient by Tim Bray
Jason is reading: About Face by Colonel David Hackworth

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Inger and Jason talk about how work intensification is becoming more and more evident and how this impacts people in different ways - and how to cope. We dive into the topic of internal PR and why that's important - especially in uncertain times. Inger reveals how she REALLY feels about her promotion application to become a professor.

Inger is reading: Leaving Academia by Cristopher Caterine - forthcoming from Princeton University Press
Jason is reading: The Mere Urgency Effect by Zu, Yang and Hsee 2018

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 Where we talk about committees, working from your car, the 12 cups of coffee method. Oh yeah - plenty of Omnifocus as well.

Jason is reading 'Remote: office not required' by Jason Fried at 37Signals.
Inger is reading 'Non obvious mega trends: how to see what others miss and predict the future' by Rohit Bhargava

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- 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. 

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