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<meta property="og:description" content="A short ebook about the misadventures of tech entrepreneurship. Guaranteed to make you laugh or your money back (it's free)." />
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<h1>Who owns this nonsense?</h1>
<h2>Copyleft time!</h2>
<p>The work is copyleft 2014 by <a href="http://twitter.com/acityinohio">Josh Cincinnati.</a> Style sheet and design lovingly copied/modified from Mark Pilgrim’s DiveIntoHTML5 -- with all appropriate notices to that effect within the style sheet.</p>
<p class=c><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a></p>
<p>That's (not copy)right, copyleft! This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p>What that means in non-lawyer-speak: feel free to share/modify/make money off the text as you like, but attribute it to me (name, Flailing Fast website, and Twitter link please).</p>
<h2>Just who is this asshat?</h2>
<p>Originally, when I wrote “Flailing Fast” in 2011-12, I hid my identity to ensure that I could say anything. Since publishing this work, I’ve done a lot of healthy introspection, and some unhealthy introspection (protip: several dozen MRIs significantly increases your chance of cancer and sheds zero light on the abstract nature of what lies inside you). Today, I’ve come to the conclusion that I shouldn’t dissociate my creative work from my real identity, whatever the consequences.</p>
<p>So, in that spirit, my name is Josh Cincinnati. I have worked on my own startup and at various other places. I got my MBA at Stanford and received undergraduate degrees in Political & Social Thought and Mathematics from the University of Virginia. The last time I ever wrote something this long and unintentionally funny was my undergraduate thesis. I have an irrational fear of failure, which made writing this rather tricky -- I would, at times, start crying incoherently after editing chapters. I briefly considered using a comfortable, pseudo-scientifically approved shade of blue for the book’s typeface.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in discussing the book, I’m too lazy to put together anything remotely advanced on this site, so just use <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23FlailFast">#FlailFast</a> as the “official” Twitter hashtag, or follow/tweet/verb me at <a href="http://twitter.com/ACityInOhio">@ACityInOhio</a> (if Twitter is around when you’re reading this).</p>
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<p class=c>Copyleft MMXIV Josh Cincinnati</p>
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