Description

It’s been a year since we started working on Metacast. In this episode Arnab and Ilya reflect on the journey and compare working on a startup with the old corporate days.

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Chapters

• 05:35 - No going back to corporate
• 06:21 - Annual reviews
• 13:43 - Best year of Ilya's career
• 15:49 - Frustrations with corporate
• 20:32 - Anxiety and collaboration
• 26:41 - Playing a long game
• 27:33 - Letting go of old habits
• 34:13 - Getting back into coding
• 37:22 - What's new in the app
• 40:55 - Book & podcast recommendations

**Show notes
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Links

• Ilya’s LinkedIn post with reflections

Podcasts

• Metacast Ep. 24, part 1: Leaving jobs at Google and Amazon to start a podcast tech company
• Metacast Ep. 24, part 2: Non-linear career paths, culture at Google vs. Amazon
• What Are Sperm Whales Saying? Researchers Find A Complex 'Alphabet' on the Short Wave podcast
• Was the 401(k) a Mistake? on The Daily podcast
• Google Eats Rocks + A Win for A.I. Interpretability + Safety Vibe Check on the Hard Fork podcast
• Adam Mosseri on the Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin podcast

Books

• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
• Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
• Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

Movies & TV

• Shogun TV series
• Revolutionary Road
• Ford v Ferrari

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• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/metacast/id6462012536
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player

Get in touch

• Contact us: hello@metacastpodcast.com
• Ilya's LinkedIn
• Arnab's LinkedIn