“Psychologically, there is this weird thing where you want to brag about these things that you’re not supposed to,” Thiel would say to me. Freud explained this phenomenon a hundred years ago: “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.” This is how Peter justified the few friends he told and how he suspects he was eventually discovered. Just as rules are meant to be broken, it seems, secrets are meant to be shared.
Freud and secrets eyes to see ears to hear
