I'm doing a poetry and translation workshop tonight. If you don't mind, I'll use this quote to remind us what honest public writing is really about:

"As more and more energy goes into distorting and manipulating public understanding of the world, it becomes more necessary to bare your soul to the furthest extent possible so people can decide on their own whether you're the kind of person they want to pay attention to.

People are very distrusting in today's environment, and rightly so; we swim in an ocean of lies. You can get around that distrust by manipulating people into thinking you're trustworthy, or you can do it by taking transparency to the furthest extent possible and letting yourself be fully seen so that people can make up their own minds about you for themselves."

Thanks for explaining things so clearly. I love this feeling when I read something that I somehow already knew, but had no language to express myself.