btkramer - Please post more here on HN! Exactly this sentiment and restraint is what makes HN so magical. Truly: Less is more on HN.

I intentionally post under a semi-anonymous login ID because my job is very sensitive to public exposure. "[B]orderline difficult" -- I felt exactly the same before I started posting about serious, but difficult issues here. (One of my first posts was about a serial killer [!] in California who was caught by DNA analysis. That would be impossible for me to comment about under my real name.) Posting under a semi-anonymous login ID gave the intellectual freedom that I needed.

Kindly, please try posting a few comments under a semi-anonymous login ID. If you get a few up-votes, you may be motivated to post more.