What I'm doing now
This page is inspired by the /now page and from Derek Silver. You should check it out!
Professional Focus
Yay, time to celebrate almost 12 months of no job, no internship :/ However, I did many incredible things this year: got my personal site (yeah this porfolio site) working and go live with just 3 weeks of coding and writing case studies, got over my fear of ‘writing’ and published some of my blog posts in my dedicated writing site, and this “now” page too.
Here to hope that I can get a job in this UX industry soon in this year where so many disruptive things happening right now, and working with smarter and more capable workers than me to deliver the good work, because I Must Do This.
Hobbies
Reading
Most of the books I’ve read so far in these months mostly related to how to do good storytelling (cause work can’t sell themselves duh), society’s problem and more heavy sensitive stuff like mental health. Here is the list if you want to know:
- Articulating Design Decision by Tom Greever
- Bức xức không làm ta vô can (Being angry doesn’t mean we are not involved) by Dang Hoang Giang.
- The business of UX Writing by Yael Ben-David.
- Enshittification by Cory Doctorow.
- Đại dương đen (The Black Void) by Dang Hoang Giang.
Writing
A little wild to see to see that I actually took time to write now when most of my time is just either playing games or reading. Thank you to Mike Monterio through his book to inspire me to have a leap of faith towards blogging and writing for myself. Back to this topic. I’m trying to keep 2-week schedule to post my blog, but maybe I should let it go and publish whenever I feel comfortable.
Recently, I published some ‘sensual’ essays with added retro in it in unusual website. I don’t know if I can make it a continuing project, but maybe you should write some blogs too. Anywhere other than Substack.
Learning
I’m nearing the end of my university years now so only one subject left, about 2 - 3 weeks till the final test day. Also, lately I’ve been eyeing on whether I should learn a third language like Chinese or Japanese to relieve my boredom. Maybe I should take a knitting class or an archery class this year too *laugh.
Gaming
Video games are my source of inspiration and also my escapism. I’ve been seriously giving Granblue Fantasy a try and must say that I’m having a good time (despite I hate the grindy stuff of it). Gacha games really taught me patience and ways how to optimize resources for real. Here is to wonderful time for playing games even if some people saying it’s childish to enjoy them. Oh, if you care about old games in the past you might want to check out Stop Killing Games and its recent optimistic development to take back the rights of rightfully own the video games we love.
This page was last updated by 2026-05-02 from Hanoi.