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The Resume That Got Me Into Facebook As An IC6 PM

This is the exact resume that I submitted to Facebook, got me interviews and resulted in me being hired as an IC6 PM in 2017.

Timing Strategies for the LSAT

After this session, you will know how to allocate time across LSAT sections in a way that protects your strongest question types and limits costly guessing. We will cover pacing benchmarks for Logical Reasoning and Logic Games, how to recognize when to cut a question and move on, and the decision framework that separates high scorers from those who run out of time.

What You Need to Have Ready Before Medical School Applications Open

Medical school applications move quickly once the cycle opens, and applicants who prepare early are often the ones who submit the strongest materials. This session is for future applicants who want to understand what should already be in place before the application even opens. You’ll learn how to prepare your activities and clinical experiences, organize recommendation letters, and start shaping a personal narrative that reflects what admissions committees value.

Deep-Dive Case Study: Use AI to Plan Your Wedding & See Its Full Potential

Planning a wedding—or any complex project—can feel overwhelming, but AI has the potential to streamline every step and unlock new efficiencies. This session is for anyone curious about how AI can be applied to real-world planning and project management. You’ll see how to design workflows, automate tasks, and explore the full potential of AI to save time and reduce manual effort.

Optimizing Your Law School Waitlist Strategy

After this session, you'll know how to write a waitlist letter of continued interest that actually strengthens your candidacy, when to reach out to admissions offices and what to say, and how to honestly assess whether your waitlist position has realistic potential. Most applicants either go quiet or over-communicate, and this session addresses both mistakes directly.

Round 1 MBA Application Strategy: Month-by-Month Plan

Most applicants think Round 1 starts when essays are released. It doesn’t. By the time you’re staring at a blank document in July, the strongest candidates have already done the hardest part of the work. Not writing but thinking. Not polishing, but positioning. What happens between May and September is where applications are won or lost. And the biggest mistake I see every year is candidates staying busy instead of getting strategic.

Brainstorming Skill

"/brainstorming" guides any idea through a structured design process: clarifying questions, 2-3 approaches with trade-offs, a written spec, and user approval before any implementation begins. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/brainstorming-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming/

Prototyping with AI: How to Quickly Turn Your Idea Into Reality

After this session, you will know how to take a rough idea and turn it into a working AI-powered prototype without a traditional engineering background. We will cover how to choose the right AI tools for your specific use case, how to structure an agent workflow that actually runs, and how to avoid the scoping mistakes that stall most early-stage builds.

The Growth Blueprint: How to Find, Understand, and Win Customers [5/1/2026] (Recording)

Finding and winning customers is one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and many founders struggle to turn early traction into consistent growth. This session is for founders who want a clearer, more structured approach to understanding their customers and scaling demand. You’ll learn how to identify your most valuable customer segments, uncover the insights that drive conversion, and build repeatable growth loops that actually work. Join live to ask questions about your own product and growth challenges and get direct input from someone who has done it before. The speaker is an experienced startup founder who regularly works with teams on customer acquisition and growth strategy. They’ll share the patterns they see across successful companies and the kinds of frameworks typically discussed in 1:1 working sessions.

Perfecting Your Pitch

After this session, you will know how to structure a startup pitch that clearly communicates traction, differentiation, and ask in the time you actually have. We will cover how to lead with the problem in a way that earns attention, how to frame your market sizing without losing credibility, and how investors typically decide whether to keep listening after the first two minutes.

Ask Me Anything: Medical School Applications with a Current Adcom

The medical school application process can feel opaque, and many applicants have questions that aren’t easily answered by guides or forums. This session is for prospective students who want direct insight from someone evaluating applications every day. You’ll learn what admissions committees prioritize, how to frame your experiences effectively, and what common mistakes to avoid when preparing your application.

The Executive Leap: A Playbook for First Time Executives

Are you ready to transition from a functional role to a business leader? Join me, Kim, for an insightful session on becoming a first-time executive. With over 20 years of experience in leadership and coaching, I specialize in empowering high-potential leaders to excel in their careers. As the Founder of Surko Coaching, I've partnered with executives to enhance their executive presence, mental resilience, and strategic decision-making, leading to significant career advancements and organizational influence. During this event, we'll cover essential topics like leadership development, communication skills, decision-making, and strategic planning. My background includes senior roles at Flowcode and Bluecore, where I successfully led cross-functional teams and drove substantial growth. As an ICF Accredited Coach and Certified Professional Coach, I leverage tools like the Energy Leadership Index to help clients overcome self-limiting beliefs and achieve sustainable success. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your full potential and achieve your professional goals. Space is limited, so RSVP now to secure your spot!

How to Automate Recurring Work in Cowork

Claude Cowork is an Anthropic tool available in the Claude Desktop app that can access your full computer and help you to automate your tasks.

Build a Quality Rubric for Your AI Workflow

A quality rubric is a set of explicit, measurable criteria that define what a good output looks like for a specific task. It answers the question: "How do I know when this is good enough to use?"

Claude Chat vs. Cowork vs Code

There are a lot of options for how to approach tasks using AI. Learn which interface to reach for why one might be more suited to specific tasks than the others.

Giving Context to Your Agents: Making Your First CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md is a plain text file that loads automatically at the start of every Claude Code or Cowork session. It tells Claude who you are, what you are working on, what tools you use, and how you want Claude to behave.

Job Finder Skill

"/job-finder" searches the web for job listings by industry, level, and location; it deduplicates against a running Google Sheet tracker and sends a draft formatted email digest with links to new postings. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/job-finder-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/job-finder/

Notion Task Manager Skill

"/notion-task-manager" parses brain dumps, bullet lists, meeting notes, or voice transcripts into structured Notion tasks with inferred title, project, owner, priority, and deadline. It then creates them in the right database and confirms what was added. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/notion-task-manager-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/notion-task-manager/

A Skill for Creating Skills

"/skill-creator" is Anthropic's official skill that creates new skills from scratch, modifies and improves existing skills, runs evals to test skill performance, and benchmarks skills with variance analysis and description optimization. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/skill-creator-skill.zip -d ~/.agents/skills/skill-creator/

Outreach Email Frameworks Skill

"/copy-frameworks" writes outreach emails using campaign-tested frameworks (SPARK, PAS, AIDA, Nudge) with two variants per request. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/copy-frameworks-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/