# Going swimming (and being transparent)

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2016-07-23

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I woke up this morning to this view:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/922e476edc2252eb28a076c1b77e5168.jpg)

I then went for a swim. The water tends to be on the cooler side in the [Georgian Bay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Bay), but with the weather we’ve been having it’s pretty perfect right now.

At this point I’m thinking about a beer and some reading. I have Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty sitting in my car. It’s next in the queue.

I am telling you all of this simply to be transparent. 

Recently I had someone caution me that I should be careful about being too public and too open. I won’t get into specifics, but I was told that sometimes it’s better to just fly under the radar.

I recognize that there have to be limits to transparency, but as a rule of thumb I subscribe to the opposite approach. When possible and when appropriate, I would rather be more, rather than less, transparent. 

This blog is who I am. It’s indicative of how I think. And it discloses what I’m doing. So I don’t see a lot of downside. What you read is what you get. You’ll know if we should be friends and/or do business together.

After I wrote about [what I’m doing next](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/147673715888/what-im-doing-next) I had a bunch of emails come in from various people telling me what they’re doing and, in some cases, suggesting that we work together. Some people had development sites that they thought I should take a look at. And some people immediately asked if I was hiring.

I am grateful for each of those emails. But I also know that they’re an outcome of openness and transparency.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/going-swimming-and-being-transparent)*