Shop Talk: The Collision of Craft, Faith and Service
- The Tradeoffs in Selling Your Craft (Shop Talk #1)
- Writing with Sheet Metal (Shop Talk #2)
- Is Your Job Fulfilling? (Shop Talk #3)
- Bottledworder: Writing in spite of the daily (Shop Talk #3.1)
- Ten Ways Fulfillment Mingles with Professional Writing (Shop Talk #4)
- Taking Technical Communication Personally (Shop Talk #5)
- Why I Want To Do What Others Don’t (Shop Talk #6)
- Art: To stop. To Stare. To Listen.
- Glen Stubbe: “I did this thing. Let me show you.” (Shop Talk #7)
- Power Distance Vs. Skunkworks (Shop Talk #8)
- DBT: When does talk become therapy? (Shop Talk #9)
- Find work where you can draw your own lines (Shop Talk #10)
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