Yesterday I wrote about a 2004 Bill Gates quote, but I made a mistake and wrote ‘2024’ instead.
It was a small error, but it made the rest of the post confusing and undermined the point I was trying to make.
I used to have a rule where I would proof read each post aloud before publishing. I’d read slowly over each sentence and try to spot hidden spelling, grammatical, or logical errors.
I stopped doing it, and don’t have a good reason why. But yesterday’s post has reminded me that the simplest mistakes can be easily missed. And it’s also not the standard I want to hold myself to.
Time to proof read aloud.