What's Your Reputation?

Send us Fan Mail After a brief hiatus, Dear Sovereign Self returns for its second year with an exploration of reputation. What does it actually mean to have a good one? How much of it can we intentionally build, and how much is simply the residue we leave behind? This week, I’m revisiting an idea I first explored years ago: your reputation is the residue of your choices. From the reputation of our work to the lived experience of who we are, this is an entry about what precedes us into rooms, what remains after we leave them, and the complicated difference between building a reputation and performing for one.