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7 Things I Learned From My Encounter With Russell Kirsch

August 11, 2012 By Joel Runyon 97 Comments

If you haven't read An Unexpected Ass Kicking yet, read this first. ---- After debating a few days whether or not to even share last weeks post, I hit publish. Over the first few days, it got some traffic along with some residual views from  views from my six pack transformation. But Sunday, the piece really took off. It hit the top of Hacker News for 6+ hours,  and got featured on BoingBoing (twice!). In short, over the last few days, the story has ...

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