Being Wrong

One of the things about blogger is Google really wants you to track your blog views and aim to get more.  I guess to feed their hungry ad selling machine. My initial reaction to this was actually screwing me up a bit. I was becoming a bit more self conscious about random people reading it. After all, I'm going to be writing a bunch of stuff that's probably going to be wrong. That distracted me a bit from what I was trying to do.

Part of why I'm doing this is to refine my own thinking, and inevitably means being wrong. Thinking the wrong things, writing the wrong stuff. Realizing you're wrong is the first step in making yourself right. Being worried too much about other people laughing at your wrongness isn't helpful.

Hypothetical readers will also wonder why I don't just make the blog private, so no one will get to witness my wrongness. But I think that makes it too easy to cover up and run away from past mistakes. Not from other people noticing them, but from myself noticing them.