Meta is having problems verifying me, partially because it wants me to “verify” every account linked to me or.. it seems.. I’ll lose the accounts.. this includes my DJ page that I have had as long as I’ve been on FB, another more recent music project, my access to the 3WEM page (Sivart, you’re gonna have to check those notifications every once in a while) and my access to the Stupid Inside family of products developed with myyyy… family.. man, that run-on sentence got a little repeat-y in there.. anywho.. This has led me to the realization that the compartmetation that I believe has served me so far in life may have outlived its usefulness.

In youth, it was most certainly a detriment to my career success to say something like “This is just my day job, I also have a career as a DJ and Electronic Music Producer”.. and I’ve made art this whole time and outside of a handful of people who supported that endeavor, like my Dad and Stevie Williams, I had never taken it very seriously as something anyone would appreciate in my lifetime.. I don’t want to make commercially viable art, I make art for arts sake.. But I also don’t make commercially viable music.. I make the music I want to hear.. And then I stepped out of pursuing jobs with fancy titles and for the first time in my life stuck with a job that gives me purpose, even if people who do not understand might look down on it and it pays me just not enough to get by and I’ve been making it work for the past 13 months by depleting my savings while also going deeper in to debt.

This whole time I have been a writer and poet as well, but bad experiences with women where the other man was in one case a ‘poet’ and in another a ‘writer’ had put me in a mental space where I absolutely did not want to identify as either.. And I have always been a tech nerd.. and I started my first business as a teenager and as a child I only really played make believe as either a teacher or a shop keeper..

This diversity,  the multitudes I contain have allowed me to live a unique and blessed life.  A life that Meta verification can only resolve as fraud.. I get it, I’m familiar with new people thinking I’m a liar, so I generally produce photographic documentation of some sort without being prompted, because most people aren’t going to call you a liar to your face (except this girl who’s name I believe was Nicki at a party once.. but I digress)..

So, after not being able to sleep last night, I decided to make my insomnia useful and I wrote an article about how algorithmic verification rewards conformity and punishes innovation.. which also let me to decide that I am going to put all of everything together on my LinkedIn.. I have a job and passion projects that bring in a little extra from time to time, and who cares if someone on LinkedIn thinks I’m exaggerating? Not stepping into my full authentic self was at one point beneficial, and I don’t regret my past decisions. HOWEVER, I’d be lying to myself if I were to suggest that, at this point, I’m not an old man. I have earned every bit of what I have, and I deserve to take credit for all I’ve accomplished. Besides, if anyone is trying to recruit me off LinkedIn, I’m not excepting positions below the executive level. I have reached a point in my life where NOT being my true and authentic self has become the obstacle that must be overcome.

So, yes.. I am Christopher Jason Harper,  AKA Jason Theory/GoodOne.. I am a leader in my community where I volunteer for the food bank and manage a team of 50ish associates. I am an Artist. I am a Performer.. I live to be on stage.. I am a writer, even if my only published article (so far) is a humorous review of playing Oldschool Runescape on a mobile platform. I am a tech guy that learned to program in basic before first grade and I am gifted in understanding complex ideas which is why I went into first grade as 6yr old with a pretty solid grasp on college level physics thanks to the daytime programming on WHYY (Donate at WHYY.ORG and a big Fuck You to any pea brained red hat that supports cutting funding for public television and radio.. Mr. Rogers is disappointed in you, and thats all I’m going to say about that right now) I am an extraordinary gentleman,  and I won’t apologize for it anymore. A very good friend said something to me once and I’ll never forget it and it has been something I could always come back to when I felt ostracized.. Amazing can’t be normal.