SwiftOnSecurity

I have enormous vulnerability in my origins working helpdesk. I didn't know it was the most important thing I ever did, that made me who I am today.

But I worked that job thinking I was nothing. And that I had to lie about who I was. I created SwiftonSecurity to be someone I wasn't. I created it as a role-play. Because I had to play it to believe it. And I had to believe it to be it. Even as an artifice.

And that is how I became it. Because I was already working a security job.

I just didn't believe it yet.

Nov 25 at 1:28amWeb
Show threadSwiftOnSecurityNov 25
The story behind SwiftOnSecurity involves a car crash, it involves a post about heartbleed, and involves discovering I had a voice people cared about even as I portrayed myself as a joke. And found out I wasn't one.
Show threadSwiftOnSecurityNov 25
Anyway. Just posting through it. I wish I could tell you the whole story.
Show threadMatt HallNov 25

@SwiftOnSecurity

<3

Show threadStormgrenNov 25
@SwiftOnSecurity Thank you for sharing that with all of us.
Show threadComrade WeezNov 25
@SwiftOnSecurity I'm happy just listening to the person the story created. I'm usually just in awe of how smart and vividly expressive you are. Please keep being SoS.
Show threadFennixNov 25

@SwiftOnSecurity

Thanks for sharing!

Show threadJadedTurtleNov 25
@SwiftOnSecurity someday
Show threadBenjaminNov 29
@SwiftOnSecurity I have always believed in you Tay! (And I wish I could set you loose on my employer IT who do so many things to make my life worse without helping anything)
Show threadWendy NatherNov 25
@SwiftOnSecurity 🫂
Show threadComrade WeezNov 25
@SwiftOnSecurity ❤️
Show threadSara Nov 25
@SwiftOnSecurity Following you for years has been a joy and so informative. Glad to have you here.
Show threadRichard "RichiH" HartmannNov 25

@SwiftOnSecurity yeah, people like us tend to do this as a defensive mechanism and to get somewhat positive attention every now and then.

Being able to give our past selves a glimpse of who we will end up being would be glorious, but it would also invariably change who we would turn out to be.

Show threaddonkeyNov 25
@SwiftOnSecurity
Show thread  Wesche Nov 26
@SwiftOnSecurity don't forget about corn. Corn was a huge part of the Swift lore 😁