Chris Nguyen

Software Engineer in Vietnam

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  • Thinking about death

    The first time I acknowledged that there was something called “death” was when I was 5. It was at my aunt’s funeral; my mom and other aunts/uncles were crying hard over my dead aunt’s coffin. It was the first time I saw many adults crying. I thought only kids cried. At that time, all I…

  • On information consumption

    We consume a lot of information everyday (34GB on average). Similar to what we physically consume, what we put into our mind has a great impact on our mental AND physical health. We can’t resist the flood of information, nor can we just consume everything which is algorithmically tailored for us. What we could (and…

  • Read the fucking docs

    As a Vietnamese student, I was taught literature at school the same way a toddler is taught identifying objects. This is a car, that is a dog, just like that. I was given a poem or a narrative. Then the teacher would tell me exactly what the author meant, as if she was the author. “The author criticized the rigid dictatorship…

  • Hello world.

    Coming soon…