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My eBook Pricing Experiment: Intro to AWS for Newbies
What I learned from 7 Months, 123 Sales, and $1,377.75 in Revenue from using a “Pay What You Want” model for my eBook.
LinkedIn Instructor: Recording Courses in SoCal 🌴
I was flown out for a week to SoCal to record courses with LinkedIn Learning for Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers video course series!
Reflecting on January
The last time I wrote a monthly recap post was last January. (Mostly because I had a GREAT January, and then I crashed in February and could barely function for a whole month.) I don’t know if this one will continue, but I figure let’s try it again! Work + Hustles + Tech LinkedIn Learning…
Recording my First LinkedIn Learning Course in LA
I recorded my first course with LinkedIn Learning in LA! Here’s my experience.
2018: The Year of Unexpected Beginnings
2018. What can I say, except wow. It was a year of many many unexpected beginnings, trials, and impact on my identity as a person. I said Yes to many things, and No to others, and being able to realize my boundaries and limitations have allowed me to find myself in situations that I couldn’t…
On Facing Death, 7 Years Later
On December 7th, 2011, my family woke up before dawn and began getting ready to step out into the darkness. My father, my mother, and I rode in relative silence on the 30 minute drive to Baltimore from our house. Usually, there is traffic, but so early in the morning, there were barely any cars…
Revisiting My University | Fear the Turtle!
Few weeks ago, after my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam, my boyfriend and I decided to go visit our old stomping ground: University of Maryland. I attended the university for 6 years, getting my bachelor’s and my master’s, and he was there for 4 years, getting his bachelors. While we had very different experiences (he…
How I became an #AWSCertified Cloud Practitioner in 2 weeks
How I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam after 2 weeks of studying.
AWS Summit NYC 2018: What’s in a Cloud?
Last week, I attended AWS Summit NYC 2018 at Javits Center in New York City. While I’ve attended tech conferences in the past, this was the first technical industry-driven conference. AWS Summits happen all over the world, and are free to attend! What’s AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform. Amazon launched the…