While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

If an organization produces a document, it should be made public as soon as possible.

I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.

As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.

I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society