Who You Really Are: a Conversation About Pseudonymity With Default Friend at Consensus

For me, it’s more like compartmentalizing different parts of my identity. It’s been a long time since I’ve experimented with my identity online. You know, when someone Googles my “day job name,” ideally, I want only generic tech stuff to come up. My day job name has been released so many times because people are sort of angry that I don’t write anything controversial. There’s Katherine Dee the, like, journalist, and then Default Friend. The two have become sort of blended recently.