I try to document as much of what I can of what I do. But I do that for myself, first, and sometimes only for myself, and always imperfectly within a context of limits.
I'm sloppy, imprecise, irresponsible. I mix data & code, code & configuration, the private & the public. I use global variables & violate every confidence.
Nevermind that sharing a lot of that would be wrong, if not criminal. The prospect of first and always "open" inhibits me. I don't have these worries so long as I do nothing. I already do much more nothing than I'd like.
This idea that everything can ever be fully open is a totalizing brightsided twin to "you only need worry if you have something to hide" surveillance authoritarianism. It turns a gift freely given into an obligation.
I find it noxious, if not inhumane.
