🧠 Future-Proof Jobs, Free LLM Course, & a $10K Kickstarter That Blew Up

The Byte Report

🌿 Where Biology Becomes a Blueprint

🧠 Hugging Face LLM Course – Your AI Degree, But Free

📈 Employment projections 2025 - 2033 and AI’s impact

🐈💥 How to Build an Exploding Kittens Game from idea to concept

🌿 AskNature.org – Where Biology Becomes a Blueprint

Have you ever wanted to Google Mother Nature's design secrets? AskNature is an encyclopedia of anything built that was inspired by nature. Developed by the Biomimicry Institute, it’s a searchable database of how nature influences much of the technology around us today.

Think:

• 🐜 Search Algorithm Inspired by Ant Trails

• 🐋 Whales shaping wind turbines

• 🌵 Cacti teach us water conservation

• 🦜The Bird Kingfisher inspired the Japanese Shinkansen bullet train

It's not just for tree-huggers or science nerds — it’s where innovation teams, product designers, and curious minds snag eco-genius hacks straight from the wild.

🧠 TL;DR: Nature’s R&D department has been running for 3.8 billion years. Maybe the next big idea is right outside.

🧠 Hugging Face LLM Course – Your AI Degree, But Free

Free, as in Free Beer or coffee…No gatekeeping, no tuition fees, but plenty of amazing material. Hugging Face’s LLM Course is a slick, beginner-to-pro crash course that teaches you how large language models tick — and how to build, fine-tune, and deploy them like a boss.

🔥 What you'll learn:

• What transformers do (spoiler: it’s not magic, it’s attention)

• How tokenization works without needing a PhD

• Hands-on coding with 🤗 Transformers, datasets, and your own LLM apps

• Fine-tuning tricks to make ChatGPT your loyal companion agent

A big shoutout to Hugging Face, which refreshed its NLP course to the new LLM course to accomplish its mission to Democratize AI!

📊 BLS Employment Projections: 2023–2033

Who’s Hiring, Who’s Fading, and What AI Won’t Eat (Yet). It’s hard to imagine that any government website is worth reading, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics blew me away. Not only is it really interesting information, but the website actually works and has nice data.

A decade-long peek at job market trends from the U.S. government’s stat squad.

📈 Top Highlights:

• 🔥 Fastest-growing sector? Healthcare. We're aging fast, and the robots haven’t cracked nursing yet.

• 🤖 Tech still rules — AI, data, and cybersecurity roles keep climbing.

• 🛠️ Skilled trades & clean energy show surprising strength (hello, wind turbine techs). Didn’t realize we are building a gazillion new windmills anytime soon.

• ⬇️ Decliners: Office support, legal, production, and retail face the automation axe.

• 👶 Bonus: Childcare & teaching jobs are holding strong — even ChatGPT can’t babysit.

🔮 TL;DR:
From robot-wranglers to eldercare heroes, this forecast maps the next 10 years of hiring. If you're wondering what skills to level up (or dodge), this is your blueprint.

🎲 The Board Game Billionaire

From Kitchen Table to $100M Empire

I’m a massive fan of the My First Million (MFM) podcast. Sam and Shawn are excellent hosts, funny, and ask great questions. I enjoy my commute to work so that I can listen to the latest episodes.

This week, the MFM podcast interviewed Elan Lee the inventor and founder of the top board game in the world Exploding Kittens. We actually play this at home all the time and can highly recommend. What’s so amazing about this episode is Elan details one of the best idea to product strategies I’ve ever heard. This is a must listen. Below is both a link to the show itself and YouTube Below.

🧠 The Moves That Mattered:

• 💥 Started with a $10K Kickstarter. Now rakes in $100M+ annually.

• ♟️ Focused on evergreen games (think party hits + timeless themes).

• 📦 Used smart bundling, reorders, and customer LTV to scale like crazy.

• 🎧 Dropped knowledge on branding, storytelling, and niche domination.

💡 TL;DR: Elan turned card games into a billion-dollar empire without the VC fluff. If you sell anything online — physical or digital — you’ll want to steal this entire playbook.