Comment by wiether

> I could just choose to write completely pseudonymously instead.

That's the route I decided to choose when I started my professional career. I already had a personal (pseudonymous) blog. And that's where I put the stuff around work.

I decided to go this way for many reasons.

First, because I don't want it to be a source of pressure. If I talk about work stuff and make a big mistake, then people can call me out on it and it would tarnish my reputation.

Second, because I want to share things for free and to help others first, not to help myself/my career.

Last and related, if I was using it as a self-promoting media, I would focus on things that would help my career, not on things that I find funny or that I think can help someone else. So it would BE work. And it would only take a few months before I would be tired of it.

Also since I've mostly worked on heavily regulated things, I'm quite limited about what I could publicly communicate.

Now, I have my own personal room on the Internet where I can discuss everything I want, without feeling any pressure about how or what or when I should write about anything.