No secrets required

A quote from Nora Ephron, via her mother: When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people that you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh, so you become the hero, rather than the victim, of the joke.

I love this. Obviously she is speaking to the idea that it's better to have people laugh with you than laugh at you, but I think there's more here. It also speaks to this:

Transparency.

A willingness to live in the open.

The blessed degradation of...