KB101: Have the Guts to Admit it When You're Partially Wrong

(Kosmic) Blogging is an egotistic practice. Like I said, it's not a surrender of the ego, rather, it's making your egos big and healthy, in hyperspeed.

When a blogger publicly admits that (s)he's (partially) wrong, that's a big display of wisdom, guts, and BIG Compassionate Balls.

Take this example from none other than one of the most influential authors, Malcolm Gladwell:

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All right, all right, all right

Okay. It seems like absolutely no one bought my last post.  So I'm going to do the only prudent thing and concede defeat.

I was wrong.

But before I give up entirely, let me say two things. First, a quick note from my editor at the New Yorker. He points out that the piece I wrote for the magazine on plagiarism a year and a half ago—which I linked to in the last post—was a far more subtle and sophisticated version of the half-baked argument I came up with this time around. So if you really want to know how I feel about plagiarism and intellectual property, please take the time to read it.

www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_11_25_a_borrowed.html