Seen Clearly
Came across a great passage from Laura Dassow Walls biography on Henry David Thoreau:
Many have called his Walden house a “hermitage.” But pursuing this devotional path as a middle way, not out in the wilderness but on the edge of town — “just enough to to be seen clearly,” in the phrase of the philosopher Stanley Cavell — forced Thoreau, an intensely solitary introvert, to devise a public persona that could stand up to all the scrutiny and defend his private self from the glare of publicity.
Developing a presence on the web feels similar to this in-between of publicity and solitude that Walls uses to describe Thoreau's Walden home. How to do just enough to be seen clearly but defend the private self?