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Something with significant risk that is reasonably easy to mitigate should just be mitigated. Nobody loses with that, except maybe if they view that as drama.

• ghaff 4y ago
  There can also be significant disadvantages to totally disconnecting anything you do online from your professional identity. If the two things really don't have anything to do with each other--say you're a developer and write risque fiction on the side--it may make sense to use a pen name and that's not uncommon. However, many professionals in the tech space and elsewhere have online work that is intimately connected with their day job--and may even be part of their day job. In that case, anonymity is not really an option.
  • digisign 4y ago
    You could take credit in the interview, field questions, and if there is still some doubt, log in to whatever it is you'd like to show. In other words, show privately, not publicly.
    • ghaff 4y ago
      For me at least, it's pretty much nothing to do with interviews. Articles, conference presentations, just being "me" at events, social media, etc. is all part of the package.
      • digisign 4y ago
        Sounds like work is a major part of your identity. Personally prefer to keep them separate-ish.
        • ghaff 4y ago
          It's more that I'm paid to have a fairly public role which pretty much has to be under my own name.