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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ author: "Edward Delaporte V"
 
 > "How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love Software Engineering."
 
-This book contains critical advice that no one told you about getting results from software engineers.
+This is a concise guide to navigating painful truths to achieve elegant software.
 
 While my career managing software engineers benefitted greatly from them, this book will not attempt to cover topics from [Extreme Programming Explained][2]
 or [The Dragon Book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools)][3].
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ I have heard that 19 out of 20 software projects fail, by any reasonable success
 
 When I first heard the 19/20 statistic, I assumed this meant that any given team, on any given project, faced 95% odds of failure.
 
-But I put to all of you this awful insight:
+But I put to you this awful insight:
 
   - On any given project, 19 out of 20 software teams face around 99.9% odds of failure.
   - On any given project, 1 out of 20 software teams face around 99.9% odds of success.