diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 817decff..5e437e58 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Go Micro [![License](https://img.shields.io/:license-apache-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro) [![Travis CI](https://api.travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/micro/go-micro)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/micro/go-micro)
 
-Go Micro is a pluggable RPC framework which provides the fundamental building blocks for writing microservices. It is part of [Micro](https://github.com/micro/micro), the microservice toolkit.
+Go Micro is a pluggable RPC framework for **microservices**. It provides the fundamental building blocks for writing distributed systems. It is part of [Micro](https://github.com/micro/micro), the microservice toolkit.
 
 The **Micro** philosophy is sane defaults with a pluggable architecture. We provide defaults to get you started quickly but everything can be easily swapped out. It comes with built in support for {json,proto}-rpc encoding, consul or multicast dns for service discovery, http for communication and random hashed client side load balancing.