And even if you do choose your identity, you seldom have the luxury of choosing whether it is controversial or not. PG has spent the majority of his adult life

And even if you do choose your identity, you seldom have the luxury of choosing whether it is controversial or not. PG has spent the majority of his adult life promoting the "hacker" identity and forming communities for such people. A bit rich for him to tell others to put their identity back into their box because strongly believing in the merits of a particular religious belief, political cause or cultural identity turns out to create more conflict than strongly believing in solving problems with software