Thanks for writing this. I post a lot of things that would make me unemployable in academia and NGOs. But using my real name helps me know what my purpose is and to never shy away from disagreeing with others.
I am past the point of caring about such things at a personal level since I am fully self sufficient in retirement, but I think you are correct. When I first started interacting with other people on the internet, I did put in a lot of thought about rather or not to use pseudonyms or my real name, and decided to go with my real name most of the time, unless I was relating certain types of personal stories that involved the people that I know in the physical world, in which case I used a pseudonym to protect their anonymity. In the last 2-3 years, though, I had been pondering what I would have done today were I still employed in corporate America since I voice many very unpolitically correct opinions on a variety of topics- certainly opinions that could easily have gotten me canned.
Counterpoints: handle names are cool, and you should change your irl name to your internet name. Having a "gamertag"-style name is ingroup signaling, like being named "Noah" or "Christopher". The content of the name field actually matters exactly zero, because it really does not matter if your name is actually $NAME, or if everyone has simply decided to call you that.
I don't know. I code for big company. I like my job. I like security. I want to have children. I keep up the Ketman.
I have a good friend. He works for a dissident company. They are currently being fucked by the SEC. It's put a lot of stress on him.
Have you ever read Milosh, the captive mind?
Thanks for writing this. I post a lot of things that would make me unemployable in academia and NGOs. But using my real name helps me know what my purpose is and to never shy away from disagreeing with others.
I am past the point of caring about such things at a personal level since I am fully self sufficient in retirement, but I think you are correct. When I first started interacting with other people on the internet, I did put in a lot of thought about rather or not to use pseudonyms or my real name, and decided to go with my real name most of the time, unless I was relating certain types of personal stories that involved the people that I know in the physical world, in which case I used a pseudonym to protect their anonymity. In the last 2-3 years, though, I had been pondering what I would have done today were I still employed in corporate America since I voice many very unpolitically correct opinions on a variety of topics- certainly opinions that could easily have gotten me canned.
Counterpoints: handle names are cool, and you should change your irl name to your internet name. Having a "gamertag"-style name is ingroup signaling, like being named "Noah" or "Christopher". The content of the name field actually matters exactly zero, because it really does not matter if your name is actually $NAME, or if everyone has simply decided to call you that.