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My Udacity Learning Journey: Building What’s Next
Connecting my technology marketing experience with the next chapter of hands-on AI learning.
Eraina Ferguson · Oct 31, 2026 · 2 min read
A career in technology does not make you finished with learning. If anything, it makes the next question more interesting: what do I want to understand well enough to build for myself?
My story includes product marketing at Udacity, Meta and Lever. That experience sits alongside a growing interest in AI engineering and a desire to share the learning journey—not simply the polished result. This is the beginning of an editorial series about that next chapter.
The connection between learning and work
Education and technology marketing meet at a practical question: how does someone move from hearing about an idea to actually using it? Explaining a product is valuable. Understanding the decisions behind it adds another layer.
My Udacity learning journey belongs in that conversation. Rather than presenting a certificate as the entire story, I want to explore the relationship between learning a concept, trying it, and discovering which questions remain.
What I want to understand about AI
My focus is advancing my AI engineering skills. That means looking beyond a convincing demo and asking what makes an application useful, dependable and understandable to the person using it.
Questions about inputs, evaluation, privacy and user experience are a useful starting point. I want this series to connect those technical questions with the product thinking and storytelling that already inform my work.
A learning journey worth documenting
The most useful learning story is not a highlight reel. It makes room for decisions: why a subject matters, where an explanation becomes confusing, and how a learner decides what to try next.
Future entries can pair course reflections with small experiments and practical takeaways. The aim is to make the process visible without turning an unfinished experiment into a claim of expertise.
Where this series goes next
I want to connect education, hands-on building and the real life surrounding both. The next step is to document specific learning milestones and the applications they inform as those details are ready to share.
Education collaborations may become part of that story. Any future partnership will be clearly disclosed; this story does not announce a sponsored or confirmed Udacity campaign.