"We would like the diversity of opinion in Cuban society to be more publicly exposed," was how Rhodes put it.
If you have a conversation with a 30-year-old, it's quite scary how exposed they are compared to my generation," he said.
The same goes for hardware manufacturers: the recent Meltdown and Spectre debacle just showed how exposed we are and how easy it is, even for the savviest users, to get their passwords and keys stolen.
Part of the reason investors are so nervous about the health of financial companies is that they do not know how exposed they are to the derivatives market.
"O.K.," I said, and I started by reminding them how far it was from town, how exposed it was, but I soon realized that they weren't listening.
Banks and other quoted firms should reveal how exposed they are to the market.
If investors doubt that a company is coming clean about its financial standing — the current worry is how exposed our banks are to European debt woes — its stock price will suffer.
But in the aftermath of the housing bust and the resulting mortgage crisis, it seems apparent that risk wasn't so much reduced as hidden: all too many investors had no idea how exposed they were.
"Watching these small goats investigating a new outcrop, we saw intial excitement turn to doubt as they realised how exposed they were.
