The One About The Important Thing

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 episode fifty 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 Enjoy it now, or download for later. Here’s a handy feed or subscribe via Overcast or iTunes.