You can address this by updating the essay! Also, I don't see your oversight as equivalent with taking on a hard task at work. If you fail at work (which is a

You can address this by updating the essay! Also, I don't see your oversight as equivalent with taking on a hard task at work. If you fail at work (which is a real possibility if the task is actually hard), you've probably wasted time on something you were explicitly told not to do and caused others to have to pick up your slack in other areas, and will be labeled as both a failure and a poor teammate. If this is an organization you would like to continue to work for, this is devastating. You can mitigate this by working on the hard task on your own time, but frequently the benefits aren't worth the effort there. On the other hand, your oversight can easily be fixed, and I agree it is unlikely to have negative repercussions for you because no one else is really invested in the outcome of your blog. That's rarely the case when you're an employee at a company.