Give someone an anonymous account and you’ll meet the person they’ve been hiding.

Most restraint is held in place by consequence rather than by conviction, which is uncomfortable to notice and true of nearly everyone. Remove the name and you remove the cost, and whatever appears afterwards was there the whole time. That is not a reason for despair. It is a reason to build the restraint somewhere deeper than fear of being caught.

Watch what you say when nothing can be traced back, and treat it as information rather than as a verdict. If it is not who you want to be, the answer is not better hiding. It is saying fewer of those things anywhere.