For years I avoided posting publicly. Not because I had controversial opinions—just normal tech observations, family events, the usual. But the further I advanced professionally, the more everything felt like potential liability.
Looking back, that wasn't risk management. It was anxiety dressed up as prudence.
The actual math: risk of sharing normal professional content is near zero. Cost of years of silence is a missing network, no public presence, no voice in conversations that matter.
I'm not in politics. I'm not handling sensitive information. I'm an IT manager who builds apps and cooks on a Traeger. The careful silence was protecting against a threat that never existed.