my watch-phrase used to be “The New Openness”; something Trevor Goodchild said once on an old animated episode of Æon Flvx, that sparked a fire in my gut around the fearlessness and power that stemmed from revealing everything (or at least more than people expected). As a kid, I was quite secretive about my ideas whenever I was inventing some new duct-tape-and-string contraption because I believed that other people would steal my ideas. While I’m older now, and I know for a fact that people will use your ideas, it doesn’t bother me so much. And I still share what to older or more conservative people seems like a shocking amount of “lifedata”.

This article in the nytimes literary mag breaks it down (oddly, featuring ny hipstercoder jacob lodwick