If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
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Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
#2Love the show and do think pretty realistic in an exaggerated way.
Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
#3It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.
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#4I mean, he's not really from Silicon Valley, so I guess we should take his viewpoint with a grain of salt ;)
> I have friends in Silicon Valley who refuse to watch the show because they think it’s just making fun of them.
But yeah, it's good to take a look at satire of yourself once in a while. Often they can tell you stuff that you may have overlooked, and generally they're not too hurtful when doing so.
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#5I love the running joke that the main characters work on fake technobabble, but the background companies (particularly the TechCrunch episode) are babbling about stuff that sounds fake but is real tech. “Making the world a better place through Paxos distributed consensus!”
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#6It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.
I think Mike Judge is the difference here. He strikes me as a genius when it comes to understanding human behavior.
Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
#7It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.
This Venn diagram always gets me.
Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
#8Mike Judge, one of the show runners, was in the valley during the 80s so it makes sense that there would be some truth.
Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
#9King of the Hill has also resurfaced on Hulu recently after not being available to stream anywhere. Mike Judge has a real talent for nailing essence of a culture.
Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
#10It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.
> Big Bang Theory
Oh how I loathed that show, especially at height of its popularity. I got so tired of smiling and nodding (or rolling my eyes, depending on who it was) as non-technical people at work and even my mother-in-law made it clear they thought of me when they watched that show (simply because I was the "smart engineer", so obviously a huge nerd with no social ability). None of these people were my age though, they were all signficantly older and Silicon Valley would have likely been much too sophisticated for them.