Our Story » Writing http://kennsarah.net The digital home of Sarah & Ken Walker Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:10:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en How Not to Suck at Your Job http://kennsarah.net/2006/01/31/how-not-to-suck-at-your-job/ http://kennsarah.net/2006/01/31/how-not-to-suck-at-your-job/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:24:20 +0000 Ken http://kennsarah.net/2006/01/31/how-not-to-suck-at-your-job/ ??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:

Getting the Basics Right, versions 34 and 59 compared

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