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You may be surprised to learn that Colin asked him to write this post.

From what I can see, the author offered Colin "advice" in a form of a consultation as a public blog post. A simple conversion from "unsolicited" advice.

No, he wrote an article that Colin specifically asked him to write: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/451262554069663744

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