(1) Writing is how I think. Putting thoughts into words, reading the draft, changing it, leaving it for months, throwing it away or deciding it’s right and publishing it. It's how I understand, learn, analyse, argue, decide and explain.
(2) Anonymity is important. So not Paul Graham or Slate Star Codex 1 2 or even Rands in Repose. Definitely more anonymous. Anonymity is important because I need to be able to write and think without worrying what others think. I need to write for me.
(3) I also need to write well. I must do the thinking and I must do it clearly. Publishing and publishing cumulatively does this, it is my forcing function. It's nice to think that what I write might be fodder for others, but frankly this site is for me and I expect very little traffic from the search engines.
(4) There's a tension here, between the publisher’s loss of anonymity and my need for quality. But life is busy and diminishing marginal returns come to mind. Ultimately, anonymity is a relative concept. But I'll never admit that this is my website. So it's anonymous.
(5) I've got no email address for the same reason. No comment box. No correspondence. No Discord, Discourse or Facebook Like button. If I publish it here I'm happy with it. I change my mind with pleasant regularity and from time to time I even point it out, but what I thought is what I thought and I stand by that.
(6) Life is busy. I write what I must when I can. There's no commitment to a schedule. I'm a Bayesian, hedonist and Stoic at heart. I see no contradiction in any of these and might write more one day, but not today.