pseudonyms

What is the % difference between IRL Michael and the online caricature of Michael Dean? Is it 1%, 5%, 20%? Can I even know that? In some ways, could the online self be more real than the IRL self? Could it be the frontier where I test and grow into facets of my identity?

Notes from Charlie Bleecker’s podcast onpseudonyms.

• 1) Before her audience, she wrote a blog for 9 years and had an audience. Sometimes the freedom to write is worth sacrificing an audience that traps you in an old and rigid self. ...

• 2) Choose names that are pronounceable, spellable, and memorable! I dropped my long, Greek last name because you didn

Oscar Wilde on pseudonyms:

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

Had a good talk with some WOP alum about names and pseudonyms. Some names have cultural roots, and we wondered if you wanted to be aligned or mysteriously separated from that. When it comes down to “nominal determinism,” by Greek last name translates to “lazy cripple” so I’m not too sad to drop it. I like the angle of, your self-assigned name is th