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Announcing a New Way to Reinforce Your Resume: My Alumni List.

September 23, 2026

I hope you never have to look for another job.

However, if you do, I wanna give you as much reinforcement as I can. If you're the kind of person who attends my live classes, pays attention, asks questions, and does the lab homework, you deserve to be able to brag about that. You deserve a public record of your work, something you can point to on my site that links directly to your LinkedIn, and a certificate you can put on your LinkedIn.

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