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Where My Stupid Mistake Came From

Posted on July 01, 2008

CNN makes a spelling mistake. Mine mostly have to do with numbers. This morning, on an earlier blog post, I mistook $2,100,000 for $2.1 billion.As far as basic math mistakes go, that one was a winner. Though I fixed it, the error still felt like a failure. I want to produce perfect material, not stuff with glaring mistakes. My initial self-annihilating suspicion pointed towards a fundamental character flaw. Then I thought about it more. A character flaw causes death or downfall. What I m facing here is more of a functional problem. And if Dr. Stephen Diamond is right, I m one of millions. ...

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