On the reg
Episodes
A shameless plug!
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger has A Lot Going On At The Moment - and has the tshirt to prove it. Jason's been Get...
Planning for 2026, fashion influencer style!
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!We're on YouTube! Watch this episode hereVote on Jason's wardrobe edit here(If you w...
AI SEO - how does ChatGPT talk about you behind your back?
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Hey! Jason will be in the UK in Late April. If you'd like to chat to him about the trip a...
Is boredom your academic superpower?
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Welcome to the first Youtube video version of the pod! Watch it hereSorry for the sound quali...
If AI is the hammer, do we have the right nails?
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason has been living his best life, travelling NZ (where he did not touch boiling mud, as muc...
Analogue Productivity - is this book bullshit?
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger is in town, so Jason took her to a pod casting studio as a treat for episode 80 (can you...
Tiny Experiments (and larger rants)
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!In the depths of Canberra winter, no one can hear you scream about AI... except for Jason, who...
Ai powered research workflows: Inger finally realises her dream to become a cyborg
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This one's a bit overdue folks - that's Inger's fault, don't blame Jason! ...
What does it take to be an entreprenerd?
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason lost the annual Downs family hosted hot cross bun competition, but Inger's politica...
Is this book bullshit? Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Proactive
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!We're back! It's been six weeks - sorry about that!Jason was finally struck down by ...
Where Inger makes Jason read a Romance Novel (again!)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Longtime listeners who have been asking for Jason to read another romance novel: Inger has del...
Late stage capitalism wants us dead - what can we do about it?
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason have been on summer holidays. Jason's family acquired a 10 year old ginge...
Our technology stacks - what products we use for different problems (Kitchen Table episodes vol 2)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason catch up at the kitchen table... in Casa Downs this time. The sound on this on...
Why that book about Bullshit Jobs is not, in fact, bullshit.
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is dying of a cold. Inger is surrounded by an ocean of redundancies at ANU. Anyone would...
The Kitchen Table sessions (volume one)
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!The OTR team have been travelling around the country, and around the world, delivering worksho...
The Pain Sponge (or how to be a less crap academic manager)
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is living his best life, free of Latrobe - but Inger has immediately put him to work! On...
Is this book bullshit? Cal Newport discovers the labour movement
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!The On The Reg team have been busy with All The Things. In Jason's case, making salami an...
The mean girl in the internet of things
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason has consciously uncoupled from his employer. Inger's getting a Volvo. There is clea...
The body keeps the score
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is having some time off work to get his health back in order. Inger takes the opportunit...
Trusting the Meat Computer
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason convene for the long awaited mailbag episode! (but first there's a bit of...
Obsidian! 1996 called and it wants its database back.
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!It's been quite the month. Jason was pulled over in the Tinny (again), Inger had a mo...
What we are doing with GenAI now... (it's pretty cool)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason had pneumonia when he recorded this very long pod with Inger. It's a testament to h...
The sweet, sweet taste of academic freedom
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason are at the end of the holidays. For Jason this meant going to a hash den in Th...
The unexpected Christmas Day episode!
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason recorded an episode at 9pm at night on the 15th of November, before Inger took...
Hot academic gossip and the Circle of Niceness
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This one has been in the can for a while - but it was recorded only a week after the previous ...
The meat grinder
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason are back, a bit later than anticipated because the audio the first time this e...
Is productivity talk the new veganism?
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!The Downs household has suffered a loss, while one member of the Mewburn household has discove...
The one about Stephen Hawking's dining habits
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!WE'RE BACK BABY!Inger sums up her whole Cambridge University experience in one anecdote a...
Please keep sending in your questions!
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason pop in for a brief, 2 minute-ish pod. The quickest episode in OTR pod history!...
Don't you forget about us!
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!On The Reg is officially on hiatus until Inger returns from her sabbatical in August. Listen t...
How big things get done (or not)
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger's dusty in this episode, after an epic David Lodge style dinner party the night bef...
How to get to inbox zero and other stories
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason has been doing BJJ, the gym, eat sleep and repeat - with an occasional visit to country ...
The weapons of influence
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger's happy her Apple Watch has declared her 'fit' while Jason surprised his ...
Strategic Thinking for Fun and Profit
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger was late to the microphone but Jason is in the lead this time, so the show actually ha...
Getting Sh!t done in 2023!
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason have been on holidays, so there's a lot to catch up on. Jason was off the...
AI: a pearl clutching panic fest, or are the robots really coming for our jobs?
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!You might have noticed this episode is rather... long. But it's your last episode befor...
Starting new things - what are the pain points?
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger's had Covid Bingo, where she scored almost every symptom in the book. Meanwhile Jas...
Twitter is a hot mess - do we have to start Tootin' on the Masty now?
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Buckle up folks, this is a long one! It's been a big couple of weeks since Jason and Inge...
Where Jason and Inger go WAY too deep on Obsidian
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason catch up to get their nerd on HARD in this episode - you have been warned. Aft...
Building a second brain (for writing)
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!There's a lot of sweary words in this one, headphones in!Inger brought a sword to work an...
The 80/20 principle: is this book bullshit?
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason have been busy, you know - the usual. Inger has been deep in three minute thes...
The Thieves of Time?
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason are both complaining about their health again. Jason has 'mild degenerati...
Applying 'Extreme Ownership' to your career: are you an elbow patcher or an entrepreneur?
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason catch up on Inger's 24th wedding anniversary (with Mr Thesis Whisperer&ap...
How Atomic Habits can make your writing life easier
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason has Novid now, but he dragged himself to the mic. Inger’s been sick again and, honestl...
IS this book bullshit? Habit Three of the seven habits of highly effective people
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason and Inger are behind on their podcasting schedule because Inger had Not-Covid/ Not-flu a...
Revisiting the bullet journal and seven varieties of stupidity
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason are back to their usual format now the election is done. This is the first wee...
Hunky fire fighters and and existential crisis over bacon and eggs
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Warning - there's a LOT of swearing in this one, so if there are sensitive little ears pr...
Someone needs to call the election because we are exhausterated
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!We've been busy, but you know - in a good way. Inger and Jason are both exhausterated - b...
So good they can't ignore you... or can they?
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Warning - there's a lot of swearing in this one, so maybe shield from sensitive little ea...
Is this book bullshit? The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This episode of On the Reg is slightly delayed because of children being stranded in Western P...
Obsessive passion and the Omicron variations
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Content warning! In this episode we talk briefly about anxiety and addiction. If either of tho...
Tips for the lockdown you have when you're not really having a lockdown.
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason and Inger are on summer holidays! This episode is one Inger recorded last year with Mark...
The one about Overwhelm
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!It's been a busy couple of weeks leading up to the end of the year for both Inger and Jas...
Should I open this email and other stories, including one about the tinny
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger had a unexpected visit to the hospital and Jason had trouble getting the tinny out to se...
Long service leave: artefact of colonisation or just bloody awesome?
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason and Inger finally have time to really catch up properly... with a well over 2 hour conve...
Jason is back in The Matrix
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason just got back from 14 weeks driving around Australia on #epictrip2021! So it seemed like...
Bottoming our way through pandemic lockdowns (with lavender mist and pills)
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger recorded this guestapooloza version of On The Reg just before Canberra was locked down.....
Articulation work isn't just a cool research paper from 1992 (even though it kind of is)
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!After hearing briefly from Jason, who seems to be making progress on his digital detox, Inger ...
Networking is more than nibbling wine and cheese (in a doomsday bunker)
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger has a guest host while @Jasondowns is gallivanting his way around Australia on #epictrip...
Academic permafrost and the vital few
14 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!It's the last episode of On the Reg before Jason goes on #epictrip2021 but don't wor...
'Good waste' and yak shaving
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This week Inger is joined by Jonathan O'Donnell from the Research Whisperer as Jason is s...
Dealing with other people's procrastination (and a few tips on how to keep your feet warm)
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is wondering how long he is going to be constrained to a 25km radius as he tries to plan...
Procrastination reconsidered and driving through spider rain.
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason has been in #markinghell, but dreaming of his #epictrip2021 (which you can follow on Ins...
Procrastination and the poisonous algorithmic 'nudge'
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason are very touched by a lovely message Chad left on Speakpipe - we ate the prais...
An emergency Melbourne pandemic lockdown broadcast!
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Where Inger and Jason release an emergency broadcast in support of everyone who is working thr...
Eating secular vegan hot cross buns while starting with the end in mind.
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason both enjoyed a brief Easter break, but for different reasons. Inger has been z...
The seven habits, revisited (well, Chapter One at least)
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger was too scared to drive her new Tesla and Jason was scared he'd lost his drone at s...
A Bullet Journal love fest (#bujo)
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason's been sailing around in his tinny (with and without thongs) and Dj'ing on a s...
University bullshit and working out when to shut up
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason have both been dealing with challenges. For Inger it's finding time to wo...
White solidarity and the bullet journal
21 Feb 2021
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Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason are now fully back at work. Jason is is relieved people have welcomed him back...
Spooky dancing robots and the presence bleed
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and jason have had a holiday - sort of. A lot of it seemed to involve making a dash for ...
That All Terrain Vehicle in Aliens Two and a treatise on Canberra parking problems
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!It's our last episode for 2020 (don't worry, we'll be back. Jason can't ge...
Lucy Liu in leather pants or a middle aged lady wizard who can turn into a cat
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger has a big news for Jason - but you'll have to listen for about six minutes before w...
That guy who does no work on Saturdays and how to remember if one of your colleagues was on the olympic skating team (Live from #Whisperfest 2020)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This recording was made from a live taping session during 'Whisperfest 2020' in fron...
Gantt charting your way to heaven while Team Trump does a presser next to an adult book store
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!We start by taking a moment to acknowledge that The Trump presidency has come to an end, ignom...
All quiet on the email front and how Jason became the mayor of Baker's Delight
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Jason is emerging from Lockdown, getting a long over due hair cut and having cross-town advent...
Everything is terrible, but at least we have pandemic homewares
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This episode carries a content warning... best not to listen if hearing about the pain of losi...
The 'To Be Read' pile and the academic Burning Man festival
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Lockdown continues in Melbourne, but Jason is looking forward to being able to visit his mothe...
Love Heart Emoji Eyes and the Optimum Dose of Caffeine
30 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!We start with Inger's aborted holiday in a cottage in the country when Thesis Whisperer J...
International Roast and the work iceberg
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!This podcast was the first one recorded with Zencastr, which makes for a slightly nervewrackin...
Dry July and the Text Expander cult
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Where Inger and Jason eventually end up wondering if money is actually real, by way of promoti...
Covid fatness and the merely urgent
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!Inger and Jason talk about how work intensification is becoming more and more evident and how ...
Episode one: where we conquer our technical difficulties
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Where we talk about committees, working from your car, the 12 cups of coffee method. Oh yeah...