diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ If you are not familiar with Rubocop, spend some time studying their page and a
 
 4. Please add a test for your change. Only refactoring and documentation changes
 require no new tests. If you are adding functionality or fixing a bug, we need
-a test! We use [Minitest](https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest) in this project. If you're not familiar with Minitest and are comfortable with Rspec, please ask a collaborator to review your PR.
+a test! We use [Minitest](https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest) in this project. If you're not familiar with Minitest and are comfortable with Rspec, please ask a contributor/collaborator to review your PR.
 
 5. Make the test pass. Always use `sample`, `shuffle`, and `rand` from
 the Base class (just like the rest of the code) rather than
@@ -34,32 +34,19 @@ arguments. An exception to this could be a method that takes only one
 optional argument, and it's unlikely that that method would ever take more
 than one optional argument.
 
-8. If you need to update your branch with master before merging, you should follow these steps:
-```ruby
-# GitHub ID: vbrazo
-# Branch: fixes/fix-warnings
+8. Push to your fork and submit a pull request.
 
-git remote -v # Show all Remote Branches
-git remote add faker git@github.com:stympy/faker.git # if you don't have the faker remote address yet
-git checkout master # switch to the master branch
-git reset --hard HEAD~50 # because your branch master might have things that don't need anymore
-git pull faker master # now you're good to go
-git push -f [your remote address] master # now your master is updated
-# in this case it would be git push -f vbrazo master
+### Github Flow
 
-# if you want to update your fixes/fix-warnings branch after updating your master:
-git checkout fixes/fix-warnings
-git merge --no-ff master
-git status # to see what files have conflicts. Fix the conflicts and commit them
-git add .
-git commit -m 'Fix merge conflicts with master'
-git push -f [your remote address] fixes/fix-warnings
-# in this case it would be git push -f vbrazo fixes/fix-warnings
-```
+For those of you with commit access, please check out Scott Chacon's blog post about [github flow](http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html)
 
-8. Push to your fork and submit a pull request.
+> * Anything in the master branch is deployable
+> * To work on something new, create a descriptively named branch off of master (ie: new-oauth2-scopes)
+> * Commit to that branch locally and regularly push your work to the same named branch on the server
+> * When you need feedback or help, or you think the branch is ready for merging, open a pull request
+> * After someone else has reviewed and signed off on the feature, you can merge it into master
 
-Syntax:
+Syntax/Good practices:
 
 * Two spaces, no tabs.
 * No trailing whitespace. Blank lines should not have any space.