??Ken Walker??: “Getting the Basics Right”:http://relevantmagazine.com/life_article.php?id=7104. Hey, that’s me. 
“Alissa”:http://www.alissaclark.com needed an article for the Career and Finance department of ??Relevant Magazine??, so I thought I’d divulge all the secrets of my success in 1,000 of my favorite words. Speaking of not sucking, do you know _how_ to condense everything you’ve ever wanted to say about the corporate world into a two page blurb? Revise, revise, revise. Then ask for feedback from people you respect (and will be honest about how much it _still_ sucks), and revise some more.
The final article endured 61 mostly-late-night revisions, ballooning up to as many as 1,714 words at version number 34. The picture below is every change I made between that version and the final. Highlighted green words are additions, grey struck-out words are removals. Here’s to “embracing your constraints”:http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/the_positive_side_effect_of_big_text_less_text.php:
Wow Dude! Way to get published! That’s awesome, and a good article to boot. I mean, I know you’ve been blogging for a while, but getting published on someone else’s magazine is a bit different. Congrats.
Thanks, Chris.
Ken, that’s extremely cool. Ditto to what Christ said. Congrats.
Ummmm… I meant what CHRIS said, not what Christ said.
lol–thanks, Matt. Hey, when is the TechBridges blog going live?
Way to go Ken! I so enjoy reading your blog. It’s ever so much more well-written than mine; perhaps that fact should serve as inspiration for improvement . . .
Oh, and your bio on the Relevant site is perfect.
Thanks, Kyleen. By the way, where’s your blog? I googled your name but only found an a cappella group at NYU.
Ah, the good ol’ days as one of the N’Harmonics . . . you can find me here: http://www.xanga.com/a2cutefrog
Awesome. “Subscribed”:http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=a2cutefrog.
Congratu-freakin’-lations, man.
Canny list, entertaining (and dare I say applicable) even for the non-cubicle set. Very well-written with the right word for every thought.
I have so many in-law stories to tell! Thanks for giving me one I can be proud of.