That's smart. It seems like your post can be distilled into two main points: people are more likely to like you if they can relate to your journey, and they're more likely to remember what your write when they know who you are.

It's that second point that really resonates with me. The story provides a scaffolding of context on which people can hang your ideas. When you are known, instead of just "some guy on the internet", it's easier to learn from your words and even to just recall them. I think it's a phenomenon closely related to the pedagogical "zone of proximal development" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development).