Failure
A couple of weeks ago, I combed through the Don’tASQ archives, removing several old testing and other “junk” posts. (Which posts? It doesn’t matter — you never read them. 
) That’s when I came across this unfinished series titled “Making the Change”. It was supposed to be a five-part series; I’d written three of them before I decided that I could no longer continue. My heart simply wasn’t in it, and the quality of my writing was starting to deteriorate — something that I refuse to allow in anything I publish. In short, I failed. I’d set the expectation that I would deliver a product to my readers, but that product ended up only 60% completed. Where I come from, that’s a D-.
But I didn’t delete these posts. I didn’t try to cover up my mistakes, didn’t attempt to sweep them under the rug and hope Google didn’t cache them. Why not? Because I believe in honesty and genuineness. The Internet is a medium which tends to make us believe (falsely) that we can retract our words effortlessly and without consequence. If Blurblog posts were handwritten letters, would we be able to undeliver them? If they were spoken words, could we take them back?
By admitting our failures — regardless of their nature — and letting go of the past, we encourage mutual trust and free ourselves to focus on doing better next time. As far as Making the Change… if even one person is helped by my unfinished series, then I don’t consider it a failure at all. 
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