The Important Thing

Author: Michael Lopp

The Important Thing with Michael ("Rands") Lopp and Lyle Troxell. Let's spend a few minutes of your life listening and learning about an Important Thing.
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Language: en

Genres: Business, Leisure, Management

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The One About The Important Thing
Sunday, 12 July, 2026

One hundred episodes. For this occasion, years in the coming, Lyle and Rands talk about the thing itself — the nuts and bolts of the podcast, including how the robots now do an alarming amount of the work, what a hundred episodes taught us, and why we use the "The One About…" naming convention. 🎁: the show has a home at importantthing.show. Deep-link a favorite or just scroll through a hundred episodes of history. Stuff that came up: Riverside, where this show has been recorded since the We Are Netflix days Rands Leadership Slack, now staffed by a helpful jobs robot named Floyd Planetfall, the Infocom classic Floyd is named after Friends, the homage hiding in plain sight in every episode title Marco Arment, listening since at least Rands' fiftieth birthday Related Important Things episodes: EP 56: The One About the Month of Podcasting EP 51: The One About Names... Again EP 98: The One About The Joy of Bots EP 18: The One About Sugar — Lyle's favorite, as heard on-air EP 78: The One About Sandwiches — the other favorite EP 96: The One About ARC Raiders — the first episode the robots dressed up