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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