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Seems to be a great project - but it is intimidating being required to be awesome. Evokes pictures of myself stuck in a group of awesome people making it obvious to myself how not-awesome I am ... so I am not going ... :-(

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Agreed. That word is an instant put off for me every time I see it used in contexts like this. Time for it to be retired.

Ah, totally see where you're coming from. Looking over the copy again, I couldn't remember why we used awesome instead of interesting, like how it's expressed in the section below. We've changed it.

Thanks for being awesome ;)

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