The title quote hits home for me today -- reading through my sent mails, I kept wincing when I made some confident assertion that ended up being totally off-bas

The title quote hits home for me today -- reading through my sent mails, I kept wincing when I made some confident assertion that ended up being totally off-base. It sucks to be the one appending IMOs to every sentence (especially in the startup scene, with its focus on brilliance / cojones / whatever), but otherwise you're just wasting people's time.