Reading Rockefeller's biography helped me understand how important secrecy is. People he met would leave the room without knowing what he thought; John always spoke last and reluctantly. We've become too prone to sharing everything; places we visit, thoughts we have, people we meet. More time is spent telling about the doing than doing itself, consuming time from further doing; the elixir of life. The bar is getting so low that anything we might think, we share because we think it adds value. In a sea of nonsensical posts and useless information, it might. However, that's a deep problem of the modern era. We don't spend enough time pondering about the merits and relevance of what happens. People chronically online are fed shallow, top-of-conscience output. It's become a rarity for someone to publish a Pavlov-like work (30 years experimenting, only then to write a book about it). I don't know how to solve this. I'm guilty myself and I'm trying to go back to the roots. It has just become quite difficult to make 'ancient habits' compatible with modern work.