Dear my future kids
On the toughest times in life
Dear my future kids / September 1, 2025Dear my future kids, There will be times when life just feels impossible. When nothing works out, when everything seems to fall apart all at once. You might feel so uncomfortable in your own skin, like you just want to scream, like the whole world is collapsing and you can’t stop it. It’s as if…
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On Aging, Dignity, and the Ones We Love
Dear my future kids / June 17, 2025Dear kids, I spend the quiet Hanoi mornings playing chess with your great-grandfather. It started as something simple: a way to keep him company, to slow down my own racing thoughts. When you're young, aging feels like a distant concept - something that mostly means slowing down, forgetting things, losing sharpness. But sitting across from…
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Try Anyway
Dear my future kids / June 4, 2025Dear kids, A few things happened last week that made me sit down and write this for you. I was in New York, carrying three bags, one iced americano, and absolutely zero dignity. I tripped over someone’s suitcase on the subway stairs, and dropped my phone screen-first onto the sidewalk. It lit up just in…
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To You In Case You Missed the Train
Dear my future kids / March 26, 2025Dear Little Buddies, One day, you might find yourself standing on a subway platform in New York, long after the train has pulled away. The station feels colder than usual. A distant saxophone echoes down the tunnel. People rush by, disappearing into turnstiles and lives you’ll never know. And there you are - still, quiet,…
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The Quiet Freedom of Nothing
Dear my future kids / March 21, 2025Dear Little Buddies, A few nights ago, I found myself tangled in one of those wine night conversations with some folks studying abroad from the US. We ended up drifting into that familiar existential “rabbit hole”: What is the meaning of all this? This - life! Somewhere between sips of wine and shared pauses, we…
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About Youth
Dear my future kids / March 21, 2025Dear Little Buddies, Youth is a fleeting, mischievous thing. When I was 18, I thought the saying "Youth is wasted on the young" was just something older people said out of envy. But now, as I start noticing backaches, I understand it differently. It’s not about resentment - it’s about the realization that youth is…
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The Magic Happens Outside Your Comfort Zone
Dear my future kids / March 19, 2025Dear Little Buddies, [mom at 22] One random night in New York, I somehow found myself at an intimate dinner with a fascinating mix of industry heavyweights - hedge fund titans who probably made more money in the last hour than I had in my entire career, tech founders whose apps I’d definitely doom-scrolled through,…
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Dear My Future Kids
Dear my future kids / March 19, 2025Why this session? Why this name? me at 2 having a good smile One of my favorite questions to ask people - usually over coffee, or while we’re walking aimlessly with nowhere urgent to be - is this: If you weren’t doing what you’re doing right now, what would you be doing instead? Not in…
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