The Solen Rule

"If you have to do something in secret, you probably shouldn't be doing it." These sage words have actually rung through my head on a number of occasions when I was considering doing something that I wouldn't be proud of later. And sure enough, those words have prevented me from making many stupid decisions.

Now, of course, keeping my wife's Christmas gift secret (and other things like that) are excepted from the "Solen Rule", just like personal financial, health, etc. information that may end up exposed on the Internet (reference the article below) are excepted.

I think our Google guy might have meant something other than what was inferred in this article. I'm thinking he meant the type of secrets that conceal bad behavior (illicit affairs, drug use, kicking dogs, pollution, etc), not necessarily your bank account number, home address, and other pieces of data that will allow people to steal your identity, etc. If he didn't mean to make this distinction, he should have. Because there's a huge difference, I think, between trying to keep poor behavior secret and keeping your wife's Christmas gift secret. And I wish the writer of the article would have made that distinction, rather than seeing an opportunity to poke the Google guy.

Can you imagine the difference following the Solen Rule would have made in the life of a Tiger Woods, and all the other dirtbags who cheat on their spouses, embezzle money from their employers, commit tax fraud, pirate dvds, neglect their children, and root for the White Sox? How many times do we do things - large or small - that we think, in the process of doing it, "no one will notice"? And how many lives have been destroyed when someone actually did notice? These are rhetorical questions.

But, with that in mind, I pass onto you, my faithful readers, the Solen Rule, for your consideration.

(The article link pasted below is for your reference.)

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http://gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-people