
Episode 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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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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