Week 6 EOC: Silicon Valley Rights and Wrongs

In the sixth episode of Silicon Valley, Richard faces a lot of situations where he becomes uncomfortable. This just goes to show the lack of communications and sociability Richard possesses. When the “Carver” points out Richard’s mannerism of scrunching his lips and how often Richard does it, it shows how often Richard is uncomfortable either with himself or his abilities. “Your attitude while talking is also important. “It’s not just your words that convey a message, it’s all of you.” If you slouch, jam your hands into your pockets, shuffle your feet and avoid eye contact, people will get the impression you don’t want to communicate with them.” (Adams). This is something that Richard needs to work on, even though he did aske the Carver for help. By asking for help, Richard shows that he does need the Carver’s abilities and that he admits the Carver is a better coder than Richard. He doesn’t admit defeat in any way, Richard simply asks for the Carver to tackle a problem in collaboration. “What I learned from the experience was that asking for help is a delicate endeavor—but when done right, it’ll get the job done faster or better.” (Winter). This should have sped the problem solving up, however, Richard left the Carver alone which was not the brightest idea. Richard shouldn’t have left a teenager alone with the sole foundation of Pied Piper. Though the carver is somewhat experienced with coding, he did have an incident with Bank of America which he later confessed to.  Obviously Richard did not know, but he still shouldn’t have let anyone alone with the foundation of the company. “Proper security management specifies actions and protocols in case of data loss, breach detection and critical vulnerability detection (in a product).” (Liber).