The Pain Sponge (or how to be a less crap academic manager)

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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 various doings, including Doen's Jnr's
laundry skills, Inger's campaign to get a Puppy and getting
caught up in the Blue Screen of Death global IT meltdown!

There's a full mailbag with some side dashes of Claude before the
team embark on the central question: how can you be a less crap
manager in academia? God knows, we need them - we have many
Thoughts.

Reading hasn't been high on the agenda, but there's still a two
minute tip or two at the end!

Stuff we mentioned:
Inger's blog post on how AI is saving her 12 hours a week
Alison Hardy's podcast
@thehulry on Threads
Open AI is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion - Wired
Magazine


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