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a writer with brain injury helping you beat ADHD

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How Brain Injury and ADHD helped me find dream career in Tech

How Brain Injury and ADHD helped me find dream career in Tech

Posted on May 31, 2022August 5, 2024Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts, Writing4 Replies

Brain surgery left me with debilitating disabilities. It was only after I embraced my needs and accommodations that I found a dream career in tech as a technical writer and published author.

LinkedIn Learning: Teaching as a Technical Instructor

LinkedIn Learning: Teaching as a Technical Instructor

Posted on February 1, 2021April 17, 2024Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts15 Replies

Interested in becoming a LinkedIn Learning Instructor? I’ve published 8 courses with LinkedIn Learning, and will share the pros/cons!

Creating my First egghead Lesson!

Creating my First egghead Lesson!

Posted on August 26, 2020October 17, 2021Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts2 Replies

I just published my first egghead lesson! The instructor feedback process, the iterations, and what I learned in the process.

Self-Publishing Successful eBooks

Self-Publishing Successful eBooks

Posted on July 30, 2020January 19, 2023Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Book-Club, Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tutorials2 Replies

How does one self-publish a successful ebook? I investigate what highly successful author Nathan Barry (founder of ConvertKit) had to say.

From Disabled Special Ed Teacher to AWS Hero

From Disabled Special Ed Teacher to AWS Hero

Posted on July 23, 2020August 8, 2024Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts, Writing1 Reply

How I went from Special Ed teacher to working in IT to teaching AWS on LinkedIn Learning & becoming an AWS Community Leader.

Carrd: Connect your Domain (or Subdomain) to Carrd

Carrd: Connect your Domain (or Subdomain) to Carrd

Posted on May 9, 2020January 29, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Self-Employment, Tech, Tutorials3 Replies

Quick tutorial on connecting your domain or subdomain to your Carrd.co landing page in few simple steps!

Technical Writing

Technical Writing

Posted on March 13, 2020January 29, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Self-Employment, Tech, Writing4 Replies

Technical Writer with focus on introducing Cloud Computing and AWS to people with non-traditional technical backgrounds.

Redesigning my Portfolio with Free Tools

Redesigning my Portfolio with Free Tools

Posted on December 26, 2019January 29, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Self-Employment, Tech, TutorialsLeave a Reply

I have a shoestring (maybe more like sewing thread) budget, but manage to launch projects and products. Here’s how I redesigned my portfolio for free!

Free & Affordable Tools to Create Your Digital Narrative

Free & Affordable Tools to Create Your Digital Narrative

Posted on October 13, 2019Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Self-EmploymentLeave a Reply

How do you create a Digital Narrative to captivate your potential audience so they’ll come buy from you? Here are some tools to get started!

Bootstrapped Freelancer’s Guide to Getting PAID 💰

Bootstrapped Freelancer’s Guide to Getting PAID 💰

Posted on September 6, 2019Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Money, Self-Employment1 Reply

We have a product/service to sell… But how exactly do we GET THE MONEY? I’ll show you tools I use to get money from my clients into my bank account.

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Hiroko Nishimura

Hiroko Nishimura is an AWS Community Hero, technical instructor at LinkedIn Learning, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers.

She writes about her jarring transition to motherhood on Substack. Many posts are reposted on this blog as well under Tag: Substack. Looking for my Japanese posts?

She is a brain injury and brain surgery survivor, writing about dealing with adult Executive Dysfunction/ADHD.

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