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inessential: How to Be Wrong on the Internet

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Sometimes I hear from people who’d like to blog more — or at all — but they worry, they say, about “being wrong on the internet.”

31 Jul 2014 How to Be Wrong on the Internet Sometimes I hear from people who’d like to blog more — or at all — but they worry, they say, about “being wrong on the internet.” Me, I do it all the time. I’m constantly wrong on the internet. Here’s how I think about it: Blogging is, for me, part of the process of getting to the truth. Everything is provisional — it’s what I think now, and I might change my mind in a year. Or in a day. Or in a minute, when somebody posts (or tweets) more or better information or has a solid argument. And that’s the part I love. A recent example: while writing the V

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