Personal information asymmetries
Generally I am a big proponent of preemptive transparency and honesty. It may not always be an immediately advantageous strategy, but in the long run it’s an approach that connects me to others who feel and act the same way, and those connections lead to lasting, rich exchanges. It’s my strategy for friendship, and I intend for it to be my professional strategy too.
That said, it’s not necessarily easy to implement in practice. One thing about having a blog like this is that people know things about me without me specifically telling them anything. How much of my personal life stories and thoughts do I really want to mix in with my work? And conversely, how much of my work can/should I justifiably talk about here? My previous situation at the lab had few boundaries between work and personal life, so it was fine to have everything mix into one soup. But now I’m finding it harder to reconcile the two worlds, and the pool of immediately interesting material seems to have shrunk.
No doubt I’ll leave public everything I’ve posted the past year and a half, and I do intend to keep writing. I just need to redefine the goals of this journal. This is new territory here, figuring out how to thread digital identity into the ongoing changes of real life.
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