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Pseudonyms Lets You Practice Agency
Identities are interfaces. They mediate between your interiority and the outside world. Each identity provides a set of affordances—things they allow you to do. If you have access to the identity “cop,” you can do and say things that others can’t.
Henrik Karlsson • Pseudonyms Lets You Practice Agency
I started writing online in July 2020, posted a few essays, and then deleted my website 2-3 months later. There were probably a few reasons for this: 1) I felt like I had to always outdo the quality of my last essay, 2) I was getting caught in “scope balloon” essays and disappearing for long stretches, 3) I was publishing under my full-name, and
... See moreAs a pseudonym is an identity, a name in the simplest case, which is not your real identity but that is persistent and linked to your real identity.