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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Meta-mistakes

01-Jun-10

An important and possibly overlooked part of fallibility is that you are very frequently wrong about the way in which you are wrong, even if you’ve identified that there’s an error. These are mistakes about mistakes!
Example: You think: “I sort of understood this concept, but then forgot it, and that’s why I messed up.”
The truth: [...]