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I have no identity online, except for Facebook and Linkedin. Linkedin is the only one that is public. I don't even have a photo.

I've been careful since about 1997 to always ensure that I don't attribute myself to anything I've written. Even accounts like this I'm always careful to write things that won't identify me ever, unless I did it completely on purpose (a blog post for my employer, etc). I learned very early on that the things that get written are forever, and I didn't want something I wrote 20 years ago to come back to haunt me.

I rejected a handful of candidates for things they wrote on Twitter (ex. "old people should give up their right to vote because they don't matter anymore", "SF is a piece of shit and everyone that lives there is a piece of shit").



I don't think many people will write something that reflects them negatively when it's long form content.


That's why Twitter is such a giant-killer.




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