Comments on: Can You Keep a Secret? http://www.chrisconrey.com/secret/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secret Because Second Place is a set of Steak Knives Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:24:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Katie Charland http://www.chrisconrey.com/secret/comment-page-1/#comment-1711 Katie Charland Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:29:05 +0000 http://www.chrisconrey.com/?p=536#comment-1711 I simply can't keep track of what I said to whom. That may have been the really terrible, selfish way to come around to telling the truth, but hey, whatever works. I simply can’t keep track of what I said to whom. That may have been the really terrible, selfish way to come around to telling the truth, but hey, whatever works.

]]> By: conrey http://www.chrisconrey.com/secret/comment-page-1/#comment-1708 conrey Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:16:03 +0000 http://www.chrisconrey.com/?p=536#comment-1708 I think this hits it pretty spot on - too many secrets for no reason. I think this hits it pretty spot on – too many secrets for no reason.

]]> By: Brandon Franklin http://www.chrisconrey.com/secret/comment-page-1/#comment-1707 Brandon Franklin Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:10:37 +0000 http://www.chrisconrey.com/?p=536#comment-1707 So this leads to the next obvious question: Should we be TRYING to keep secrets? There are an awful lot of them we're supposed to keep: our salary, our business ideas, trade secrets, layoffs, etc. Lots of times, we don't really NEED to keep the secret at all, since the law protects us. Patents were created as a way to protect ideas while forcing inventors to share them. Copyright can protect things we make even if we NEVER share them. And I've seen many people argue that protecting business ideas is utterly pointless anyway. My personal view is that we try to keep WAY TOO MANY secrets in general. But what do you think? So this leads to the next obvious question: Should we be TRYING to keep secrets? There are an awful lot of them we’re supposed to keep: our salary, our business ideas, trade secrets, layoffs, etc.

Lots of times, we don’t really NEED to keep the secret at all, since the law protects us. Patents were created as a way to protect ideas while forcing inventors to share them. Copyright can protect things we make even if we NEVER share them. And I’ve seen many people argue that protecting business ideas is utterly pointless anyway.

My personal view is that we try to keep WAY TOO MANY secrets in general. But what do you think?

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