The system that remembers your error should also remember when you corrected it.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Records are asymmetric by default. The failure gets logged because something went wrong and somebody had to note it; the correction goes unlogged because things going right generates no paperwork. Over time that produces a permanently unfair picture of a person, assembled by a system nobody designed to be cruel. The missing half is not hidden, it was simply never written down.

If you keep records of any kind, note the resolution beside the problem. If you judge people from records, ask what would not have been captured. And if an old error follows you about, you are allowed to supply the rest of the account.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose old mistake are you still filing under their name?

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