Rands in Repose

The One About The Important Thing

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One hundred episodes. For this occasion, years in the coming, Lyle and I 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 we record the show
  • 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 my 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

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