How can I be wrong more?

As I was re-designing this personal website and getting back into writing, I had a choice to make. What should I do with all the old posts that I have written?

There was a loud voice in my head that voted to get rid of it all. Start fresh. Keep it simple and clean. No need to keep that old content around anymore.

While all of those reasons are valid, it was masking the real reason behind that thought. Some of those old posts are bad, poorly written and completely wrong.

I wrote about the future quite frequently, so it's easy to look back now at how wrong so much of that was. Some of it was only slightly wrong and some of it was completely and comprehensively wrong.

Ultimately, I decided to keep it all there, keep it public and searchable.

I want to be wrong more.

Having that archive public is a good reminder of that. While some of those posts were wildly inaccurate, others were tangentially correct. Some of my Free Startups Ideas turned into companies and raised capital. Some of my analysis and predictions were close to correct. None of that is important though.

The process of taking the time to think through possible futures, digest those thoughts and write it all out in a coherent manner makes me better. It helps me be a better leader and entrepreneur. I want to make sure I'm doing more of that, so I'm happy to keep being wrong as frequently and publicly as possible.