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& #39;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& #39;s stuff I have already

said elsewhere. However, just because I& #39;ve said it or written about it in other places, that doesn& #39;t mean it isn& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t learn from our failures, then they were mistakes. However, if we can learn something, we can turn around almost anything!