diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ distributed actors. It has three dependencies:
  - serde_json
  - serde_repr
  
-For a simple example, see the [gg-echo](https://git.kittencollective.com/nebkor/chatty-catties/src/branch/main/gg-echo/src/main.rs) program:
+For a simple example, see the [echo](https://git.kittencollective.com/nebkor/nebkor-maelstrom/src/branch/main/examples/echo.rs) example:
 
 ``` rust
 use nebkor_maelstrom::{Body, Message, Node, Runner};
@@ -34,6 +34,23 @@ fn main() {
 }
 ```
 
+For a slightly more complicated example, check out the
+[broadcast](https://git.kittencollective.com/nebkor/nebkor-maelstrom/src/branch/main/examples/broadcast.rs)
+example, which passes the [single-node](https://fly.io/dist-sys/3a/) challenge, but utterly fails
+even the friendliest (eg, no partitions or lag) multi-node challenge, so hopefully is not giving too
+much away.
+
+## Features
+
+ - no async
+ - minimal boilerplate
+ - working RPC calls (allowing the main thread to call out to other nodes and receive a reply while
+   already handling a message)
+ - proxies for the [Maelstrom KV
+   services](https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom/blob/main/doc/services.md) that use the RPC
+   mechanism to provide `read`, `write`, and `cas` operations, and return
+   `Result<Option<serde_json::Value>, ErrorCode>`s to the caller
+
 ## How to use
 
 Create a struct and implement `nebkor_maelstrom::Node` for it, which involves a single method,
@@ -41,10 +58,10 @@ Create a struct and implement `nebkor_maelstrom::Node` for it, which involves a
 `send`, `reply`, and `rpc`.
 
 In your main function, instantiate that struct and pass that into `Runner::new()` to get a
-Runner. The `run()` method takes an optional closure that will be run when the `init` Message is
+Runner. The `run()` method takes an optional callback that will be run when the `init` Message is
 received; see the
-[broadcast](https://git.kittencollective.com/nebkor/chatty-catties/src/commit/af6d2c0b2720669f91a758c8c5755a146a914be4/gg-broadcast/src/main.rs#L10-L30)
-program for an example of that, where it spawns a thread to send periodic messages to the node.
+[broadcast](https://git.kittencollective.com/nebkor/nebkor-maelstrom/src/commit/c45b179de45ba7e03a884d6c7cdb4c1c2625ae20/examples/broadcast.rs#L8-L20)
+example, where it spawns a thread from the callback to send periodic messages to the node.
 
 ## Design considerations
 
@@ -54,8 +71,18 @@ you need to, without the ceremony of `Rc<Mutex<>>` and the like. Eschewing `asyn
 order of magnitude fewer dependencies, and the entire workspace (crate and clients) can be compiled
 in a couple seconds.
 
+It also assumes that some things are infallible. For example, there's liberal `unwrap()`ing when
+calling `send()` or `recv()` on MPSC channels, because those kinds of errors are not part of the
+Maelstrom protocol; this crate is not a general-purpose network client crate for the real
+world. Likewise `stdin` and `stdout` are always assumed to be available and reliable; those two
+channels are the physical layer for connecting a node to the Maelstrom router, and failures there
+are out of scope for Gossip Glomers.
+
+A final consideration is understandability of the crate itself; you should not have a hard time
+diving into its source from your IDE or browser.
+
 ## Acknowledgments
 
 I straight-up stole the design of the IO/network system from
 [Maelbreaker](https://github.com/rafibayer/maelbreaker/), which allowed me to get a working RPC
-call. Thanks!
+call. Thanks! And thanks to Nicole for nudging me to publish this.