Week 7 EOC: Silicon Valley Episode 8 Rights and Wrongs

During the 7^th episode of Silicon Valley, we see Erlich take the lead role. His power to be able to be socially acceptable and be able to network by speaking, public or not, really shines in this episode. This was very good in Erlich’s behalf, however he does have relations with one of the judge’s wife. This is unacceptable in many ways. This could be seen as sexual harassment in the workplace, which is not good for Pied Piper. “Sexual advances or conduct of a sexual nature which unreasonably interferes with the performance of a person's job or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.” The Tech Crunch was in a way their workplace, because they were conducting business to a degree. Meanwhile, Richard loses focus on the company because of a girl. Richard could not get his mind straight and work on the final product because he was tripped up on a girl that did not matter. This shows Richards paranoia and ability to lose concentration. “The ability to focus the mind is one of the most important abilities one should possess.”(112). Richard has to work on his ability to stay concentrated and get work done. However, Danesh was working very well, in fact he was being very productive. Richards’s inability to stay concentrated effected Danesh’s ability to work. Richard may not realize his inability to stay concentrated effects more than just himself. Danesh has a “trained mind”, “A trained mind is able to focus, without being distracted by thoughts, noises or anything else.” (126). This is much needed in the chaotic epidemic that Richard is going through. Richard is under a lot of stress, so having a calm and mellow worker, i.e. Danesh, is much needed for Richard to over come his stress.