Why I Don’t Use a Headshot for a Profile Picture
7 min readOct 6, 2019
In which the author explains the spear thistle.
Look, here’s the deal. I don’t really like myself. I can play the part of being sociable, and can even laugh frequently. Humor is a very big part of my defenses.
The problem is that you all get to go home from my performance. I can put effort into working against my inability to interpret social cues, and I…