Dear my future kids
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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