Hey Paul,

I've had thoughts along the same line as well recently – mostly when I feel like sharing something personal, but don't want to freak out my wide readership too much… People I would've never ever thought would, say to me “hey, I've been reading your blog!” – hmmmm… the effect has been that I've held off on these posts to be safe. It's a context thing, people often need to be weened off the narrow perception they have of a “personality”.

Broadly speaking though, it's not a bad thing exposing people to all sides of your personality (within reason of course!), but I'm with you on the caution thing.