Arnab and Ilya react to Jonathan Courtney's (the guest of our previous episode!) new podcast "The Unscheduled CEO" and ramble about the usual podcasting stuff like multi-track recording, NSA dropping in to give us a 5-star review, and dog farts.
Chapters
- 00:00 - Welcome and what's been happening
- 02:01 - Brian McCullough's shoutout on Techmeme Ride Home
- 03:37 - Camping in Florida next to the Everglades
- 05:34 - Binging Jonathan's Unscheduled CEO podcast
- 08:52 - The 10-12 rule for CEOs
- 10:04 - Work-life balance is bullshit
- 11:28 - Jonathan reading articles on his show
- 12:48 - The live unedited feel
- 15:54 - Content over production value
- 19:02 - Jonathan's Rodecaster and SM7B setup
- 21:06 - Just ship it, don't fixate
- 23:05 - Transparency about business numbers
- 25:06 - Transition to Jake and Jonathan reflections
- 27:20 - What is a metasode anyway
- 30:44 - Tangents and borrowing from Jake's philosophy
- 33:18 - How they used Doodle to schedule interviews
- 36:48 - Multi-track recording challenges
- 40:06 - Intermittent fasting tangent
- 43:44 - Keyboard layouts and focus mode
- 47:32 - NSA dropped a five-star review
- 51:05 - Dog farts and other audio problems
- 55:00 - Scheduling tools and Calendly
- 1:01:22 - Jake Knapp's blog post about leaving Google
- 1:06:24 - Ilya leaving his job
- 1:09:50 - Alt-J and closing thoughts
Show notes
Software
- Descript -- a tool that can help you edit audio similar to editing text in a word processor.
- Riverside -- a tool for recording podcasts and videos in high quality.
- SquadCast -- a powerful tool for recording interviews that saves high quality audio locally.
- iZotope RX -- a software suite for fixing issues and improving audio quality.
- Doodle -- the calendar tool used to schedule interviews.
- Calendly -- recommended alternative to Doodle.
Gear
Podcasts
Other Mentions
Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/005-unscheduled-reflections-metasode
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