# The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities | Aeon Essays - Host: [aeon.co](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/aeon.co/) - Saved: June 10, 2021 (2021-06-10T11:38:07Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/722c7d5c6ff5/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/722c7d5c6ff5.json ## What Jamie wrote Continuing reading on **identity** and how you think about yourself. > The point is that who you are is more complex than any one of your identities. Thinking of the self as a network is a way to conceptualise this complexity and fluidity. This seems conceptually right to me. If you want to better understand your own identity, or identities, thinking about these networks could be very useful. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT190: Weekly Thing #190 / WWDC, Passport, Roll](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/190/), Notable ## Same host - [Web developer money](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fef0e2a4f9b2/) (aeon.co, June 6, 2013) - [The Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisation – Ross Andersen – Aeon](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/84fe0b035c9b/) (aeon.co, October 5, 2014) ## Saved the same week - [The CTO Show with Rajiv Pant | Cloudflare TV](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4337ed80f67a/) (cloudflare.tv, June 10, 2021) - [DeAll: The Air of Decentralization in 2021 | Hector Fernandez | LinkedIn](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/12b3ff261fd8/) (linkedin.com, June 10, 2021) - [The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox - Andreessen Horowitz](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/de48ff2aa159/) (a16z.com, June 10, 2021) - [Jsonmatic](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fcb534698a3b/) (jsonmatic.com, June 10, 2021) - [The Bitcoin Water Trust](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/22d89a7a4451/) (charitywater.org, June 10, 2021) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities