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You Don't Earn Too Little. You Keep Too Little
Every company in your financial life accumulates assets. You pay them, they pay each other, and the money circulates back to you as salary next month. Look at the diagram and count what sits next to your name, then read on for the one number that changes it.
P1 - Why Self-Driving Cars Cannot Read Vietnamese Roads Yet
Every major autonomous driving dataset was collected in Pittsburgh, Munich, or Phoenix. Vietnam has 77 million motorcycles and zero comprehensive driving datasets. Until that changes, self-driving technology will remain blind to some of the most complex roads on earth.
I Built a Marketing Tool in 2 Hours (After Wasting a Day on the "Proper" Way)
Built a full-stack app in 1 day. Buggy, over-engineered, frustrating. Rebuilt it as a cron job + Google Sheets in 2 hours. Works perfectly. Sometimes the best architecture is no architecture.
I Built an AI Email App for 6 Months and Nobody Cared — Here's What I Learned
A brutally honest retrospective from a solo founder who spent months building features nobody asked for.
5 Principles to strengthen Leadership Authority without losing empathy
Authority isn’t difficult because decisions are complex. It’s difficult because every real decision risks disappointing someone you respect. That discomfort isn’t weakness—it’s the emotional cost of taking responsibility seriously.
IT Outsourcing Is Hitting a Ceiling – It's Time for Vietnamese Companies to Rethink Value Creation
As the global IT outsourcing landscape shifts in 2025, Vietnamese companies face a critical turning point. With rising costs, tougher client expectations, and the rise of AI and outcome-based contracts, the old project-by-project model is no longer enough
Tại sao startup thất bại
Nhiều người khởi nghiệp vì muốn thay đổi thế giới. Nhưng phần lớn lại thất bại chỉ vì… họ chưa bao giờ thật sự biết mình khởi nghiệp để làm gì.
Common Success Factors Behind SAAS Giants Like Notion and Airtable
This post unpacks Notion and Airtable's shared success drivers—PLG, no-code empowerment, viral loops, and community iteration—to equip SAAS builders with proven strategies for 95% organic growth and unicorn-scale wins.
5 Hard-Learned Lessons from Building a Tech Startup
Real insights from the trenches of startup building - the mistakes, victories, and everything in between.
Finding Work-Life Balance in the Tech Industry
Personal reflections on maintaining mental health and relationships while building a career in tech.