176 sats \ 5 replies \ @plebpoet 22 Aug \ on: Pseudonyms lets you practice agency culture
I was just thinking this morning about inventing a new nym and practicing an entirely different voice. Would be hard, but a fun puzzle perhaps.
Took me a long time to understand authenticity, made more confusing by my desire to identify myself with authenticity. It's like you say here, it's not something to be, rather something to use.
Using plebpoet was something I modeled after @bitcoinplebdev. He does a lot of my difficult thinking for me. The pseudonym gives you a framework to play within. Whereas one's identity is multifaceted and looping in on itself, always changing, the nym is one version of that emergent thing.
Also, please we want more writing from the guy behind k00b
When people email me saying they want to publish their writing but feel insecure about it, this is my first suggestion: invent a character who is not afraid, one who can say all the things you can’t. Play it. See what it’s like. If you make a fool of yourself, you can erase the character and make a new one.
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What if the invented new you will do so much better than your real you would ever be able to, that you won’t be able to let it go?
Anyway, this is not so much new to me 😉
— Oliver Weiss