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Joe Berkowitz

Joe Berkowitz is a writer and staff editor at Fast Company, and the co-author of “You Blew It!: An Awkward Look At The Many Ways In Which You’ve Already Ruined Your Life,” coming in September from Penguin/Plume.
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I was the one on your plane with the flu

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The hardest part about quitting drinking? Dating

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Joe Berkowitz, before losing weight (left) and at the New York Marathon Expo the Friday before the race.

The fat kid runs the New York City Marathon

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