So here I am. I’ve resisted the “centralized online presence” for some time, but I’ve finally come over to the dark side.

The reasons why I resisted — and relented — were complex. But in brief, I never feared being the subject of Google searches that landed on pages I didn’t control. That’s the nature of the internet. I can’t control that I happen to share a name with the drummer of Third Eye Blind. Smart people would figure it out, right?

Right. But that’s not the point. We’re unquestionably in Kundera’s age of universal deafness, and it’s in my best interest to simply adapt. And that’s what I’m doing. I think I may enjoy it, and I hope you do too.