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)

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This recording was made from a live taping session during
'Whisperfest 2020' in front of a live crowd of around 70 people
on Zoom. 

In this episode, Jason and Inger tell their origin story,
although they argue about the dried apricot analogy bit. Inger
outs Jason as being 'Dave' in her most popular Thesis Whisperer
post ever: 'The Valley of Shit'. Dave is internet famous because
this post has more downloads than any other and - more
importantly - has been spotted stuck to the back of doorways in
university bathroom stalls.

In the work problems segment, the duo tackle other people's
problems, including how much to invest in software that your
organisation won't provide to you, being your own PR rep, setting
boundaries around social media and their top 3 favourite pieces
of software that aren't Omnifocus. If you want to be on the Reg
like Kate Gambier was, leave a message for the team on
Speakpipe.

Jason chooses three mac apps: Horo, Divvy, Hazel and the paper
based Chronodex system.

Inger chooses two mac apps Scrivener and the Timing app and name
checks her awesome Twitter brains trust.

Jason has ruled out Inger counting audio books as reading, so she
can't review Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump, niece of
that orange guy who used to be president (which is a pity,
because it's amazing and like TOTALLY explains what is happening
in the US right now).

Jason has started reading Anti-Fragile: things that gain from
disorder by Nassim Taleb, although he's finding the tiny text
size annoying. Inger is reading Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastoni and is not sure if she should take it seriously
or not. In her review she quotes from a


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