Kerry B.

I wrote a blog post for @CodeNewbies about volunteering as a beginner for @CoderDojoNYC Read "Saying Yes" here bit.ly/1z6cxFD

McKinsey & Company has a program called Forward: A 10- week learning program designed to equip individuals at different stages of their careers – from career starters to job changers – with practical skills to succeed in the future of work. mckinsey.com/forward/locati… 4/22 deadline

If you're interested in starting a $150K+ career in Cyber - APPLY to this entry-level challenge with the DOD! You have an opportunity to win up to $15K and gain a full-time role with an agency!! correlation-one.com/dod-cyber-sent… 📅 Apply by June 14!!! 📚 Complete Challenges 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽Interview!!

@AshaKayB This is seriously happening?

Pay attention to the emails you receive before clicking links. Your emails and phone numbers have probably been leaked.. so anyone can look up your cell provider and target you. A quick zoom in (fuzzy) and TLS check told me this was fake, but it made it through Google servers.

If you're interested in landing a data role, whether it's in AI or Analysis, Women in Big Data is offering free DataCamp licenses through their Scholarship! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

If any friends are hiring early career DS roles, let me know!

Here's another thread of Udemy courses to stay upskilled in 2025. Courses in Product Management, GenAI, HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Flutter, Adobe Photoshop, Excel, Python, Confidence, Azure, and JavaScript.

Microsoft offers FREE Coursera scholarships for their Azure, Power BI and Cybersecurity Specializations. From Cloud, AI & Data Fundamentals. womenincloud.com/universal-digi… 📝FREE Training & Labs! 🎉Receive 2 cert exam vouchers/year 📈Build your portfolio 🎓Gain experience 😏 All Genders

⚠️ Stats PSA: Never trust summary statistics alone. Always visualize your data. The following plots all have identical means, standard deviations, and correlations.

Alright - anytime I'm asked for a resume template or what resume to use, I'm referring you all to this one. It's a clean setup that I use and I advise others to use because it gets right to the information and is easy to parse. docs.google.com/document/d/1CK… *Note this resume is fake*

If you want to start your week learning something new, here's a few FREE Udemy courses/coupons to get started or advance your skills in Cyber, Python, SQL, Data, React and JavaScript.

A couple of notes: If you get a call for an interview it's okay to ask what'll be discussed during the process. You can ask what platforms the teams work with & what they've recently built. Ask what tools, software, or coding languages you are expected to know/use in 30 days.

Free MENTAL HEALTH Services for LA Wildfire victims. Please retweet, repost, and share on all social channels. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…

Here are some helpful tips from an attorney who is very experienced in dealing with insurance companies. It can be a very tricky and intimidating process. Please pass along to anyone you know whose homes were lost or damaged in the LA fires.

I just released the second edition of my Pricing Design book—for free! The details and the backstory: In 2014, I talked with my friend and mentor @jasonsantamaria about an idea I had for a book about pricing for designers. Two years, a proposal, a bunch of manuscripts and edits later, I published my first book, an @abookapart Brief called Pricing Design. In March of 2024, A Book Apart closed their doors and gave authors back the rights to their books, along with a few conditions for authors that wanted to continue to distribute their books. Around that time, amidst some of the worst mass layoffs the tech industry has seen in a long while, I started to get increasingly more requests for my now unavailable book, presumably as more designers were looking to turn to taking their financial livelihoods into their own hands. So, I decided to release a second edition. The easiest way to read it is for free on the new Pricing Design website. If you’d like a PDF of it, you can request a free PDF to be emailed to you directly on the site. The printed paperback, Kindle/e-reader, and audiobook versions are all in the works and soon-to-be-released in the next couple of weeks, and you can sign up on the website to be notified once they’re out. Also, it’s been almost 9 years since I wrote the book, so there’s a ton more I’ve learned about pricing that I want to share! If you request the free PDF, you’ll also have the ability to opt into a very actionable mini-lesson where I tell you exactly how to value price your first prospect, step-by-step. The website and book design are all the brainchild of @jonasleupe, one of the people I’ve been working with over the last few months in my quest to find a designer who can ship. Jonas is kind, humble, and incredibly talented. I’ve really enjoyed our collaboration so far. (I’ll tell you more about Jonas and share more about the behind-the-scenes of hiring in a future post.) If you’re thinking about making the leap to freelancing or need some new ways to level up in your design business, check out the new edition of Pricing Design: pricingdesignbook.com

On the CA fires, and ***REBUILDING*** I'm not a Blue Check but hopefully this post will be amplified by others with more reach. The screenshots I'm sharing are from a former boss and friend of mine whose home was lost to a fire a few years ago. He's giving great advice:

You know how people become running experts? They run. They read about running. They write about running. They plan to run. You can become an expert in anything if you invest the time and energy into planning AND execution.

I've been doing a workshop on AI for neurodivergent people this week, and as someone who is ND, it's always really interesting to what people like us think about AI. Obvious caveat that people who pay to work with me are not representative of the full ND experience:

Session 1 starts in two hours!

I was asked on BBC News about the top ethical issues for 2025, and what to be worried about. If I had to choose one of each, unique for 2025: What's the ethical Issue? ➡️ Data consent What to be 'worried about'? ➡️ Voice cloning. More in video below. (Subtitles on LI/Bsky)