I have been agonizing over the past little while about how much of my personal life to expose on this blog. I have decided that there would be no limits — that I would simply write about whatever was on my mind.
I have, of course, considered all of the usual reasons for not divulging too much personal information online: “What about your future employers?”, “You’d be telling complete strangers about your life,” and so on. I don’t mind at all if a potential employer finds out how I got to where I am today. This blog will allow me to paint a more complete picture about my background and skills than a résumé or CV ever could. And as for telling complete strangers about my life, I intermittently have the odd experience (as I’m sure many people do) of meeting people who think they know something about me — but what they think they know turns out to be wrong, or a misunderstanding or exaggeration of something that is true. So it’s nice to have a place where I can straighten out the facts.
It has been suggested to me that I should have two blogs, one for personal matters and another for academic ones. I don’t think that could ever work… » [Expand post] [Permalink]