Maybe you’re not trying
Maybe you’re not Actually TryingOn selective agency in capable peopleCate HallMay 28, 202518,4513113,456ShareIllustration by Alexander NaughtonTwo things happened for me over the holidays five years ago: I went to rehab, and I acquired a cyberstalker. These were not entirely independent events. The stalker was someone in India who’d started following me when I was playing poker, who came to believe we had a close personal relationship and that my tweets were coded messages to him. When I stopped tweeting for two months, he became convinced something had happened to me, so he tracked down my email and phone number and started spamming me with messages demanding to know where I was.By the time I realized this was happening, he’d already escalated to the point that I was clearly never…