Being anonymous and freedom of thought.

I've been writing online for 20 years now, since the days of dial-up. Having a potential audience has always made it more fun / therapeutic for me. But I've been more and more averse to writing things 'off brand'. Because they don't get written, they don't get fully processed and out of my head, so I'm starting another blog under this alter ego.

Somewhere in the quest for personal branding and an audience, we forgot that one great thing about the internet is its potential to be anonymous.

Sometimes I want to talk about mental health or gender or politics or personal issues without worrying about present or future people using it against me. Sometimes I just want to write something that isn't within my professional wheelhouse and doesn't fit anywhere else. Sometimes I want to write something that doesn't fit in the prescribed, search engine optimized length of 800-1200 words. Sometimes I want to write something really stupid and cringeworthy.

You might think "just write things down on paper", but that's not how I operate. The medium shapes my thinking. It's one reason I moved my writing to a blog in the first place, so I could express thoughts that were longer than facebook posts but shorter than research papers.

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