Ep. 58 - The 1 Year Anniversary
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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.
Segments
[05:14] No going back to corporate
[06:00] Annual reviews
[13:22] Best year of Ilya's career
[15:28] Frustrations with corporate
[20:11] Anxiety and collaboration
[26:20] Playing a long game
[27:12] Letting go of old habits
[33:52] Getting back into coding
[37:01] What's new in the app
[40:34] Book & podcast recommendations
Show notes
Metacast
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
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
Podcasts
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
Movies & TV
Shogun TV series