Huy Pham·Apr 25, 2026·566%lifeMy personal coaching serviceYou 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.#productivity
Huy Pham·Dec 7, 2025·572%lifeI've read only ebooks for 15 years. This is my whole setupIf you still read paper books, you're in one of two camps. One I respect, one I pity.#productivity
Huy Pham·Oct 15, 2025·574%lifeI'm not religious. You should still read the Hebrew BibleRead 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.#human
Huy Pham·Aug 26, 2025·576%lifeHow to sell anything with a story, and where it turns into a lieA 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.#design
Huy Pham·Aug 1, 2025·577%lifeYour self-improvement journey needs a hard modeWe 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.#productivity#technology
Huy Pham·May 26, 2025·579%lifeI proposed during a live improv show. Her mom was hiding in the audienceWe 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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Apr 26, 2025·580%lifeWhy you still suffer when you already know what to doYou 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.#productivity
Huy Pham·Jan 25, 2025·584%lifeNever miss a loved one's lunar date againIf 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)#productivity
Huy Pham·Jan 1, 2025·585%lifeMy 2025 resolution: share everything I know before I dieIf 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.#productivity
Huy Pham·Nov 11, 2024·587%lifeI made my friends seasick before I learned to read the seaThe 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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Oct 17, 2024·588%life11,000 meters above sea levelNight. Over 11,000 meters above sea level. I was on a flight from Bangkok to Vienna, Austria. Something caught my eye outside the window.#corememory
Huy Pham·Sep 20, 2024·589%lifeconfession of a narcissistI 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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Apr 15, 2024·595%lifeAn antidote to mind-numbing content: the humble essayTight 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.#productivity
Huy Pham·Dec 17, 2023·600%lifenot knowing11pm. 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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Jul 6, 2023·606%lifeA handcrafted blog in the age of AII 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.#productivity
Huy Pham·Feb 25, 2023·611%lifeHow a filmmaker ended up founding an edtech companyI 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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Jul 14, 2022·620%lifeShould I Build This? A Modern Survival GuideI'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.#productivity
Huy Pham·Jul 29, 2020·648%life2020-07-29Tôi thấy bà tôi ngồi sụp trước cửa nhà tang lễ bệnh viện 354. Tôi đoán, bà cũng vừa nghe tin ông mất.#corememory
Huy Pham·Jan 13, 2020·656%lifeToronto, 7:30 AM. Every phone in the room rang at onceI went back to sleep. A million other phones across the area were ringing too, and I found out why the next morning.#corememory
Huy Pham·Oct 21, 2019·659%lifeSomeone asked what I do in my free time. I couldn't answerIt 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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Sep 10, 2019·661%lifeI just ran 18.17km (11.3 miles)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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Mar 17, 2019·668%life2015: I was begging for an internship. 2019: I was the one hiringSame 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.#corememory
Huy Pham·Jan 13, 2019·670%lifeHow Ditching the Social News Feed Led to My Most Productive YearIn 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.#productivity
Huy Pham·Dec 27, 2018·671%lifeNear death experienceFor a moment today, I thought I was going to die.#corememory
Huy Pham·Nov 11, 2018·673%life"Let's be realistic"is probably the most destructive thing that ever happened to my life.#corememory
Huy Pham·May 21, 2018·680%lifeGraduationAround this time 2 years ago, I was wondering if I can even graduate.#corememory
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