Epic Resignation Letter is Satire, Sparks Discussion on Privacy

No need to analyze it to death, now! I didn't make it very far through this article... tl;dr.

Though from my POV: I've read at least one other parable on the blog (a rather more obvious one about free office space), and so didn't really entertain the idea that this might be real; but I imagine it could be more confusing for readers without that context.

Because in relative isolation -- it could be real. Among the technically proficient, at least, the internet is a great equalizer, and there's no particular reason why an until-recently White House tech czar (or whatever the purported position was) couldn't be posting their thoughts on a Posterous blog. Not quite the same thing, but isn't Seth Godin's blog still on typepad, just because he started it there however many years ago, and the momentum of accumulated linkage is too powerful for him to move it now? Just because someone is appointed to a high government post (especially a technical one!) doesn't mean their past online life disappears.

And even on HN you can see comments from very wealthy & successful folk mixed in with those from high-school nerds, right? So perhaps in this case a disclaimer at the bottom of the post (so as not to completely ruin the effect...) might be advisable.