Today I tweeted at someone and I was wrong. Factually inaccurate. My gut reaction was to delete the tweet, but instead I thought it better to apologize and the exchange was really nice!

I think there is a lesson to be learned in admitting to being wrong and trying to be better.

It's partially because I am frequently wrong and as someone who loves wisdom, if I hold on to beliefs that are wrong then do I really love wisdom? I also want to teach my son to admit he is wrong and to resist toxic masculinity whenever possible.

But that's stuff I have already

said elsewhere. However, just because I've said it or written about it in other places, that doesn't mean it isn't worth reiterating or repeating.

In tech, some live and breath the motto, "go fast and break things." That means that failure is baked in. If you can't learn to

deal with failure and being wrong, well, #tech or #infosec might not be for you! I think that these lessons can apply outside a professional capacity as well.

Anyway, I'm going to go work on this short story I started last week. But I do want to make one final note. This thread

was inspired by my friend @blenster and his campaign to #MakeKindnessNormal

Part of being kind is being willing to admit you are wrong. If we don't learn from our failures, then they were mistakes. However, if we can learn something, we can turn around almost anything!