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How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang

call centre, do what you love, Erlich Bachman, hacker house, imposter syndrome, Jian Yang, Peter Gregory, Richard Hendricks, Silicon Valley, Uber for X, Vanguard fund

Miller from the stand-up world. They were the guys who I’d looked up to, both having been series regulars on other TV shows and had their Comedy Central spots. I’d seen Zach Woods and Martin Starr in The Office and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and it was the first time I’d seen Thomas Middleditch, who played the lead role of Richard Hendricks. Nobody had heard of Silicon Valley yet, but each of them painted such a vivid picture of their distinct characters. There was an undeniable chemistry between the five of them that shone through with every written line and improvisation. They riffed off of each other even at the table read and they never missed a beat.

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang

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It is not an exaggeration to say that, for a solid week in Silicon Valley, this memo was the main topic of conversation. I interviewed Damore just two days after his firing. He Skyped into our Bloomberg studio from his Mountain View apartment. He seemed a little shell-shocked by the dramatic turns his life had taken, looking a bit like Richard Hendricks, the perpetually bewildered main character on HBO’s Silicon Valley. Damore told me the reaction to his memo both internally and externally was deeply unfair. The public reaction, he said, required that he be the scapegoat. He claimed his own boss threw him under the bus. “It’s really a shame that no one in upper management could protect me,” he said.

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age by Robert Wachter

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It will likely take two or three years. Chapter 25 Silicon Valley Meets Healthcare For thousands of years, guys like us have gotten the shit kicked out of us. But now, for the first time, we’re living in an era when we can be in charge. And build empires! We can be the Vikings of our day. —Richard Hendricks, lead character on HBO’s Silicon Valley, 2014 As you’ve seen, the people who complain that the HITECH incentive payments and the Meaningful Use regulations have locked in the incumbents also worry that they have locked out the young innovators. You know the entrepreneurial types I’m referring to—the ones who have transformed the way we buy our houses, hail our cabs, and book our travel; the ones who don’t ask for permission before they enter a market, and make no apologies when they turn it upside down.

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO by Felix Gillette, John Koblin

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“When somebody is controlling two of those three things, you can control the tone really well.” Set in contemporary Palo Alto, Silicon Valley revolves around a residential tech “incubator,” a dormitory-like house full of young, male, socially inept software engineers, banging out code, mocking each other, and striving for tech stardom. At the start, Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch), a high-strung computer programmer, is developing Pied Piper, a new app that will allow people to search the universe of recorded music to check for any copyright infringements. The head of the incubator, a blustery buffoon named Erlich Bachman (T. J. Miller), is not impressed and reminds Richard that “nobody gives a shit about stealing other people’s music, okay?”