58. The 1 Year Anniversary

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. Get Metacast at ⁠⁠⁠metacast.app⁠⁠⁠. Join the ⁠⁠r/metacastapp⁠⁠ subreddit. 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** 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 Download the Metacast podcast app for free 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: [email protected] Ilya's LinkedIn Arnab's LinkedIn