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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Segments

• [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

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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