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      <p class="lead text-muted mb-5">API Evangelist is the working toolbox of Kin Lane, used to make sense of the technology, business, policies, and people behind APIs. Four places to start.</p>

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              <h2 class="fs-6 mb-2"><a href="/about/papers" class="text-decoration-none">About the Papers</a></h2>
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