There’s a lot of advice for email users about not hitting send when you’re angry.

Maybe Jason blamed you for the “mob effect” and by the appearance that you supported humiliating him.

What you have done in response shares a similar pattern. He hurt your feelings and you sensed a mob response based upon a negative image you’ve labored for years to put to rest. Sisyphus and that damned rock come to mind.

Forgive: Jason over reacted. He is the same man he was before the blog post. Same flaws… same strengths… Don’t carry this negative energy for 10 years. You’ll rub up against Jason forever and make you’re mutual friends tense for no good reason other than an old injury that should heal with some personal soul searching.

Forget: Like bad software… a memory leak can make normal operations of a program unreliable.

Forgive and forget… That’s the benefit of an apology. Re-set the relationship by caring enough to see Jason’s sensitivity in this situation.

Do you remember your start-ups? Would you have sold the ideas and benefits as hard as Jason did? Of course. Cut a friend some slack. He needs all the friends he can get right now. A campaign of “I will never trust the guy again” is pointless.

He’s terrified of failure. And the odds are not good.