Pseudonyms Lets You Practice Agency
only by understanding how we’re made use of can we start to distinguish our selves from our situations. How can you know what you want or feel or think—who you are—if you don’t know which way history’s marionette strings are tugging?
Malcolm Harris • Palo Alto
This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth re... See more
Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
It might be helpful to imagine that we can choose a persona for our project and our work. Each is appropriate in some circumstances—the trap lies in wearing one of these hats and then hoping for the result that comes from a different one.
Seth Godin • This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life)
Using pseudonyms online, in social media, and crypto transactions. If the governments’ databases get hacked, all our private online information could be made public. It will become less common to have your real name publicly online. You can still build up a reputation with a pseudonym. But your physical person can’t be canceled or damaged
Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
Identity is contextual and, if we are to live, breathe, and grow, it has to remain contextual. The Internet of the “authentic self” — a loathsome, aberrant idea if there ever was one — is an exercise in slowly getting strangled by your past selves.