All Apologies

Pietro said in his comment to my Reminder post this morning:

It's a shame that your multi-millionaire ego prevents you from saying the four hardest words in the English language: "Sorry, I was wrong."

And I do feel like apologizing.

Not for the Microsoft People Ready thing. That's way overblown. But for two things related.

I am sorry I called Jeff Jarvis "old school". He's not old school in the least. His comment to the Reminder post is one of the best things I've read in this whole Microsoft advertising affair. Like all things Jeff Jarvis, it's too long and I am not going to cut and paste it here, but click on this link and scroll down. It's great.

I am also sorry for the arrogance that was on display yesterday and today, as called out by Michael in his comment to the same post. Again click on this link and scroll down.

Arrogance is a personality trait I've had since birth. Ask my brothers and parents. I am not proud of it and I've worked hard to mute it. Not alway successfully. And since this blog is me, it will reflect that from time to time.

And for that I am sorry.

Comments

[Waldron]

Uh... sorry about the gigantic head. Uploaded wrong photo to MyBlogLog. Corrected now, but not yet updated here (if it ever will). All apologies.

[Tonto]

That was the most bullshit apology I have ever read.

[mark]

now now tony!

[Bill Dombus]

Fred, you need a serious dose of humility. You self-deprecate about your inherited "arrogance" but this blog has consistently reflected your embrace of that arrogance.

There are more successful VCs than you. There are smarter people than you in every field about which you pontificate. There are whole cities of people wealthier than you. There are people more well-connected than you. There are people that have lived more interesting lives than you. And there are people with more respected blogs than you.

The sooner you realize this, the sooner you will also realize that maybe you really don't have as much to be "arrogant" about after all.