59:02Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana
From Y Combinator · Published Jul 22, 2018 · Watch on YouTube
TL;DR
Kor Adana, co-producer and writer for Mr. Robot, recounts his journey from early hacking (breaking into a school AS400 system, prank calls as social engineering boot camp) to a cybersecurity career, then a calculated financial pivot into TV writing via unpaid internships.
Key insights
- Early prank calls served as a practical social engineering and improvisational writing boot camp, teaching character development and rapid goal-oriented dialogue.
- Adana’s apathetic, confident attitude in his corporate cybersecurity job (because he always planned to leave) ironically accelerated his promotion up the corporate ladder.
- He used a detailed financial spreadsheet (with his girlfriend) to determine exactly when he could quit his job: three years of savings to cover an unpaid internship, with the self-imposed “if I can’t
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