I look for quality conversationsin this world where it is increasingly hard to know what is true and what is fabricatedfabricated

Huy Pham·Apr 25, 2026·566%life

You lie in one spot. No dreams, no ambition. You know you're going to die soon. I was exactly there, and I climbed out within a year. Ten sessions, about $4,000. Finish the first one and hate it, I refund you.

Huy Pham·Dec 7, 2025·572%life

If you still read paper books, you're in one of two camps. One I respect, one I pity.

Huy Pham·Oct 15, 2025·574%life

Read it the way you'd learn the local dialect before moving somewhere. It opens up Western idioms, allusions, and the shapes of plenty of classics you've read.

Huy Pham·Aug 26, 2025·576%life

A wizard sells a pen. Or a product, an idea, a belief. The trick is that he rarely sells it directly. He echoes a greater wisdom and shows how it changed someone just like you. Steve Jobs worked this way. So did Elizabeth Holmes. One built the future he promised, the other sold a future that didn't exist.

Huy Pham·Aug 1, 2025·577%life

We all know the burning ambition. Launch the project, ace the exam, build the dream body. Then procrastination, distraction, and no follow-through. Apps, books, goals, and the momentum still fades. Today I'm launching PushThroo, a system that turns every setback into fuel.

Huy Pham·May 26, 2025·579%life

We volunteered as a couple, and the comedians acted out our first date. Right in the middle of the act, I took over and proposed. She said yes, then saw her mom, who had secretly flown in from another city.

Huy Pham·Apr 26, 2025·580%life

You know the cause. You know the steps. And it still hurts, almost impossible to shake. I think the feeling is only pretending to be about your problem. The method I use to let it out, I call dry squirming.

Huy Pham·Jan 25, 2025·584%life

If your family's memorial dates live on the lunar calendar, you've missed one. This is how I automate lunar anniversaries and holidays, and sync them to everyone (even the elders)

Huy Pham·Jan 1, 2025·585%life

If AI goes rogue next year, at least I contributed something. If it doesn't, I'm turning 30, I fly a lot, and who knows when my Jeju Air moment comes. Either way, everything I've written goes online.

Huy Pham·Nov 11, 2024·587%life

The captain gave me the wheel of a catamaran in rough water. Hit each wave at 45 degrees, turn into it just before impact, then back out. I got it wrong and heard the screams from the cabin below. By the end, me and the boat were one.

Huy Pham·Oct 17, 2024·588%life

Night. Over 11,000 meters above sea level. I was on a flight from Bangkok to Vienna, Austria. Something caught my eye outside the window.

Huy Pham·Sep 20, 2024·589%life

I love pointing out when people make excuses. Then a friend said I make a lot of them. So I asked ChatGPT whether I'm a narcissist. It said yes. I'd suspected it for years, and I still didn't want to hear it.

Huy Pham·Apr 15, 2024·595%life

Tight reasoning. Clear evidence. No "people say," no "most sources indicate." I hated essays in university, then ChatGPT arrived and I thought they were history. Now I'm learning to write essays again and facing the 16-year-old who hated them.

Huy Pham·Dec 17, 2023·600%life

11pm. A terrible sense of not knowing, and suddenly I'm the college me again, curled up in the dark. Instead of avoiding it, I went after the wound. How I handle pain now, and why our leaders are only better-educated guessers.

Huy Pham·Jul 6, 2023·606%life

I sometimes find myself hating AI-generated content. It feels like a waste of time: the writer of this piece is trying to fool me into doing something, so much that they employ the biggest companies on earth to help them.

Huy Pham·Feb 25, 2023·611%life

I loved film, didn't fit the industry, and gave up. Then a gap year, a stack of flyers, and one networking event turned the story around. My WARO interview on the long way here.

Huy Pham·Jul 14, 2022·620%life

I'm still young and probably stupid, but I think I have something to offer. All the knowledge you accumulate means nothing if you die or give up. So, a survival guide. Minimal assumptions, actual explanation, tactics tested over six years.

Huy Pham·Jul 29, 2020·648%life

Tôi thấy bà tôi ngồi sụp trước cửa nhà tang lễ bệnh viện 354. Tôi đoán, bà cũng vừa nghe tin ông mất.

Huy Pham·Jan 13, 2020·656%life

I went back to sleep. A million other phones across the area were ringing too, and I found out why the next morning.

Huy Pham·Dec 25, 2019·657%life

It feels just like yesterday.

Huy Pham·Oct 21, 2019·659%life

It sounds like a simple question, and it isn't. If I'm only free when I'm not doing what I normally do, then I'm not free doing it, or I'm doing something that means nothing to me. Since I found my one purpose, free time just disappeared.

Huy Pham·Sep 10, 2019·661%life

I sit in front of a computer 12 hours a day and trained for none of this. I wanted to quit, I never felt the runner's high. One thing carried me: Repressing the petty inner voice begging me to stop.

Huy Pham·Mar 17, 2019·668%life

Same career fair, four years apart. In between, my GPA fell from 3.5 to 2.3 and I gave up. Then I came back. From the other side of the table I learned that no one checks your GPA when you're the employer. Getting there takes some very unrealistic dreams.

Huy Pham·Jan 13, 2019·670%life

In 2017 I made one rule. I could read my own posts, notifications, and messages, but never the News Feed. 2018 became the most productive year of my life. The feed is a slot machine. You don't have to quit Facebook to stop pulling the lever.

Huy Pham·Dec 27, 2018·671%life

For a moment today, I thought I was going to die.

Huy Pham·Nov 11, 2018·673%life

is probably the most destructive thing that ever happened to my life.

Huy Pham·Sep 4, 2018·675%life

ALL MY LIFE I LIVED IN FEAR

Huy Pham·May 21, 2018·680%life

Around this time 2 years ago, I was wondering if I can even graduate.