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Spend a bit of your life listening and learning about this week’s Important Thing with Michael Lopp and Lyle Troxell.

The One About Exercise 04/02/2025

The One About Exercise In our 90th epsiode, we walk through all the benefits of improving our exercise strategy. /episode/index/show/rands/id/35975510

The One About Fiber 01/11/2025

The One About Fiber In our 89th episode, we talk about the wires that bring us the bits. And then Derrick the editor time travels. /episode/index/show/rands/id/34814685

The One About the Software Developer's Career Handbook 12/29/2024

The One About the Software Developer's Career Handbook 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. /episode/index/show/rands/id/34645625

The One About World Building 12/28/2024

The One About World Building 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. /episode/index/show/rands/id/34639170

The One About Gifts and Bees 12/02/2024

The One About Gifts and Bees In our 86th episode, we talk timepieces (again), and then we somehow segue to bees. Brace for it. /episode/index/show/rands/id/34224065

The One About Dapper 11/11/2024

The One About Dapper In our 85th episode, we talk dapper and how it might be armor. /episode/index/show/rands/id/33873712

The One About Rabbit Holes 08/31/2024

The One About Rabbit Holes In our 84th episode, we go deep on the idea of why it's bad to be busy. /episode/index/show/rands/id/32828352

The One About Your AI Tools 05/05/2024

The One About Your AI Tools In our 83rd episode, we revisit the various use cases we've discovered with our favorite AI tools. /episode/index/show/rands/id/31131648

The One About Timepieces 03/20/2024

The One About Timepieces In our 82nd episode, we talk watches I mean horology I mean chronophiles or maybe timepieces. /episode/index/show/rands/id/30450963

The One About Notifications 03/16/2024

The One About Notifications 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. /episode/index/show/rands/id/30401448

The One About Travel (Again) 03/07/2024

The One About Travel (Again) In our 80th episode, we talk about travels to last summer. There was a pillow menu. /episode/index/show/rands/id/30267313

The One About Losing the Weekend 03/05/2024

The One About Losing the Weekend In our 79th episode, we talk about situations with software that might destroy your weekend. /episode/index/show/rands/id/30246883

The One About Sandwiches 12/26/2023

The One About Sandwiches In our 78th episode, we’re go deep on sandwiches. Great, now I’m hungry. /episode/index/show/rands/id/29231893

The One About Magic 10/03/2023

The One About Magic In our 77th episode, we discuss why magic is everywhere. /episode/index/show/rands/id/28213307

The One About Seven Managers 06/04/2023

The One About Seven Managers In our 76th episode, we freestyle a list of the seven types of managers on the planet. There are more, but here are seven. /episode/index/show/rands/id/27041178

The One About Shoes 05/30/2023

The One About Shoes In our 75th episode, we’re talking shoes. Only 25 episodes left… and we’re talking shoes. Ok. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26993061

The One About Powerful Organizations 05/28/2023

The One About Powerful Organizations In our 74th episode, I swear we are only talking about one Important Thing, but I may be AI hallucinating. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26971668

The One About Robots 05/07/2023

The One About Robots Everyone has AI fever in our 73rd episode where — and you better get used to it — we are talking about those robots again. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26766876

The One About Must-See TV 05/04/2023

The One About Must-See TV Speed round episode. Things we’ve been watching that you must not miss. You’re welcome. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26745006

The One About Mastodon Follow-ups 04/16/2023

The One About Mastodon Follow-ups In our 71st episode, we talk about robots again, and then we follow with a Mastodon chaser. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26555757

The One About Mediation 04/09/2023

The One About Mediation In our 70th episode, the topic is mediation, not meditation, but mediation. Yeah, I had to look it up, too. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26488611

The One About Zombies 04/08/2023

The One About Zombies In our 69th episode, the topic is zombies in the context of The Last of Us and the entire zombie genre. BraaAAaaaaaaaaiAAains. Only 30 episodes left people. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26483481

The One About Horror Movies 04/07/2023

The One About Horror Movies In our 68th episode, Lopp and Lyle discuss Lyle’s performance in a horror movie as well as the role of the producer in different industries. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26478966

The One About Performance Reviews 03/29/2023

The One About Performance Reviews In our 67th episode, the topic is Performance Reviews and how you build yourself by building others. Oh yeah, we talked about ChatGPT, too. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26378688

The One About Mastodon 03/28/2023

The One About Mastodon In our 66th episode, the topic is Mastodon and how quickly and efficiently it has replaced our Twitter use cases. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26362761

The One About Bags 03/27/2023

The One About Bags In our 65th episode, the topic is bags and how much optionality you require of your bag. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26349234

The One About the Downturn 03/26/2023

The One About the Downturn In our 64th episode, we discuss proactive things you can do when the sky is falling. Also, we drink wine. /episode/index/show/rands/id/26343789

The One About Vigilantism 12/26/2022

The One About Vigilantism Our 63rd episode isn't really about vigilantism but more about holding grudges. /episode/index/show/rands/id/25434573

The One About Plane Crashes, Privacy, and Police Videos 10/23/2022

The One About Plane Crashes, Privacy, and Police Videos Our 62nd episode is a little all over the place, but it works. /episode/index/show/rands/id/24774465

The One About Privacy 10/11/2022

The One About Privacy Our 61st episode discusses privacy on the Internet: why we need more education, how much your data is worth, and what parts of privacy need to change. /episode/index/show/rands/id/24648429

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