The more open you are the more likely you are to get professional grade input, feature implementations, and bug fixes for free. The only reason to keep secrets is if your product is secretly weak and full of difficult to fix problems which would be truly dangerous to expose. But I’m not going to name any Redmond companies.

I think “should” might be better qualified though. Should, to me, implies legislation is lurking in the wings. E.g.: How open should WP dev be to better serve itself.

Please take time to read my article, How is Blogging Like Stand Up Comedy, paying close attention to the fact that blogging is its own reward, not comments, traffic, or responses. You do it because you love it, not because you get feedback. It’s a very important thing to consider.

Still, you’ve taken a big step in opening yourself up to the world by describing something about yourself on your blog. There is still plenty of other work you can to to attract attention, but blog for the love of blogging first, getting feedback second, or even never. It will be a much more rewarding experience.

Keep up the great work!

It’s not me looking for sympathy (which is no reverse psychology!) but I wanted to let you are… you are

A) the first ever person to comment on my blog (up nearly a day now, yay!), which feels like, for a lack of a better word, a drug. And
B) I may have skipped sleeping, but am rather satisfied and relieved by finishing my profile.

But truth be known, if it weren’t for that post you did on ‘who you are’ I would’ve gave up (again) and wouldn’t ‘ve been a step further…

Plus the volume of your recources at the site is of great great value!