What You'll Get
Eight recurring columns, one email.
Every issue mixes a few of these. None of it is filler — every column links to a real, free lesson already live on the site.
Role Radar
One job-market-benchmarked role explained end to end: what the company actually pays for, the skills gap most candidates miss, and the fastest credible path in.
AI Vendor Watch
The same agent-building problem, solved five different ways — Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Cloud, OpenAI and AWS Bedrock AgentCore, side by side.
Interview Playbook
Real mock-interview structure and pass-rubric criteria pulled straight from a benchmarked interview-prep track, not generic "tell me about yourself" advice.
Certificate Spotlight
The best free or near-free university course worth your weekend — Stanford, MIT, Harvard CS50 and renowned independent courses like Karpathy's Zero to Hero.
This Week in AI Jobs
New roles added to the Academy catalog, with the market signal behind each one — who's hiring, and why now.
Market Signal
What the benchmark companies behind our roles — Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google and others — are actually hiring for this quarter, not what a headline claims.
Skill Sprint
One small, shippable build from a Skill Track — an MCP server, an optical design, a data pipeline — scoped to a weekend.
Board Prep Bulletin
For the med-school side of the list: high-yield USMLE/COMLEX topics and study-system tactics from the Health Sciences Academy.
Coming Up
Topics already in the queue.
A preview of the specific issues we're building next — not vague topics, actual headlines.
- Role RadarInside the AI Platform Product Manager role companies are scrambling to fill
- AI Vendor WatchClaude vs. Copilot vs. Gemini: same agent, five architectures
- Interview PlaybookThe exact rubric behind our Google Maps PM mock interview
- Certificate SpotlightWhy Karpathy's "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero" is still the best free ML course online
- This Week in AI Jobs6 new roles we just added, from AIOps Engineer to Ad Tech Manager
- Market SignalWhat Anthropic, OpenAI and NVIDIA are actually hiring for this quarter
- Skill SprintBuild your first MCP server in a weekend — Claude, Copilot or GCP
- Board Prep BulletinThe 12 USMLE Step 1 topics most likely to trip you up
- Certificate SpotlightHarvard's CS50 family, ranked for career switchers
- Role RadarPlatform Engineer vs. DevOps vs. SRE — which one is actually your job?
- AI Vendor WatchAWS Bedrock AgentCore just shipped identity and memory — here's what changed
- Career SwitchFrom Data Analyst to AI Engineer in six months, step by step
- Market SignalThe pricing & monetization roles nobody was hiring for a year ago
- Skill SprintShip a working optical design in OpticStudio this week
FAQ
A few things worth knowing.
How often does it land?
Weekly. If a week has nothing worth your time, we skip it rather than pad it.
Is this different from just browsing the Academy?
The Academy is the reference library; the newsletter is the tour guide — it tells you which room to walk into this week and why, with a direct link.
Does signing up cost anything?
No. It's free, and the same signup unlocks full access to the Academy and Health Sciences Academy catalogs.
Can I unsubscribe?
Any time, from a link in every email.