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Hosted by Michael Lopp · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes
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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.
Michael Lopp hosts The Important Thing, a leisure show with 100 episodes published.
In our 101st episode, we kick off a new era of episode titles as your best engineer becomes the interim manager of their own team — delegation, one-on-ones, the three-year rule, a visit from Chili Palmer, the Cadillac of
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
In our 98th episode, we list the things we've been building with our robots and figure out who we're really yelling at when it all goes wrong. Mentioned, referenced, or obsessed over: Planetfall , the Infocom game that g
In our 97th episode, we talk about how much more we learn in person and why the last 10% of anything is the most important part. Things we mentioned: Rands Leadership Slack South by Southwest Jony Ive & Patrick Collison
In our 96th episode, Rands goes deep (perhaps too deep) on ARC Raiders, an extraction shooter where trust is the real currency. Mentioned, referenced, or obsessed over: ARC Raiders The Last of Us (HBO) Pokemon Go Sea of
In our 95th episode, we again talk about the value of exercise. Lyle paddles an outrigger, Rands used to play hockey, but now he bikes, and we compare peak heart rates. It's a thriller.
In our 94th episode, we talk about when Rands goes unhinged and why that is cathartic. Then, we talk about the plight of enterprise software users and why they are so unfortunate.
In our 93rd episode, we wonder aloud about free will, children, and what makes a good ice hockey team.
In our 92nd episode, we talk about the ongoing battle with productivity tool swirl. Again.
In our 91st episode, we talked about Founder Mode long after everyone else had moved on.
In our 90th epsiode, we walk through all the benefits of improving our exercise strategy.
In our 89th episode, we talk about the wires that bring us the bits. And then Derrick the editor time travels.
In our 88th episode and WAY AFTER the book was published, Lyle and I talk about the Software Developer's Career Handbook. Yes, this book was published a year ago.
In our 87th episode, we talk about world-building, but we mostly talk about shows that we love with a minimal amount of spoiler alerts.
In our 86th episode, we talk timepieces (again), and then we somehow segue to bees. Brace for it.
In our 85th episode, we talk dapper and how it might be armor.
In our 84th episode, we go deep on the idea of why it's bad to be busy.
In our 83rd episode, we revisit the various use cases we've discovered with our favorite AI tools.
In our 82nd episode, we talk watches I mean horology I mean chronophiles or maybe timepieces.
In our 81st episode, we BING talk about the BONG important BONG BONG topic of BING BING BING notifications and DING DING DING notifications sounds.
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The Important Thing is hosted by Michael Lopp. The show is categorised under leisure (business) and has published 100 episodes.
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