I believe that to find your people, you need to put as much of you out into the world. To expose your brain to the universe, and find those that like to live in there
I made this so that you can jump around my brain and see how everything connects. I hope you enjoy!
Here are some of my favorite launching off points:
- 🥩 My Life Lessons
- 🖼️ A Curator’s Approach to Life
- ✍️ Letter to Mini An
- 👨‍👦 Game Notes - How to Find Your People
- 🔄 The Contextual Twin
Other Essays + Poems
What Love Feels Like
Everything in Life is a Game
To Be Sane
NASA JPL and Careers in General
Why Do I Write?
Time is the Fundamental Resource
Working with An, A Manual
Why it’s Hard to be Productive in Zoom University
Who is An?
I think media + stories change people. Certain ones shift our identity, others seed a multi year journey of self discovery, and others install within us a new frame to view the world.
Here are some of the Foundational Works that made me, me:
- Looking for Alice - finding love and your people
- Poker + Gambling - thinking about the world in probabilities, also how to beat addiction and control your mind lol
- Thumbs Up America - hitchhike across America, for life is meant to be lived !
- My Parents - who taught me how to love, how to be a partner, and how to lead a loving family
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive - became the top rank in the world with 3000+ hours of gameplay … I need a life lol
- Blonde by Frank Ocean - if art had a true form. I listen to it once daily
- Brave New World - dopamine as oppression, the most likely form of dystopia
- Freakonomics - everything in the world has a cause, and it pays to really understand why
- Into the Wild - the Walden ideal but in movie form, “suck the marrow out of life”
- The Tim Ferris Podcast - how the greats of the world think and lived, also introducing me to stoicism
- Zero to One - sorry … how to be different and how to build the future (sorry again). Taught me that my life purpose is to change the world and to help billions of people. Focus on ideas and not their personality !
- Anthony Bourdain in Vietnam - Anthony took The Human Experience seriously. he teaches us how to live
- Billie Eilish Early Interviews - forever the coolest person in the world hehe
- Solve for Distribution - success comes from how you spread it and less so what you make
- Tim Urban + Derek Sivers - life is serious, so have fun :)
- Honorable Mentions: Tyler the Creator, Eric Andre, Naval Ravikant, Sam Altman’s “How to be Successful”, Sam Harris’ Meditations
- My Blogroll: Anu + Working Theories, Henrik + Escaping Flatland, @Synexdoche
To those that have shaped me :)
If you like what you see, curious about anything, or just want to say hi! +1 424 407 6116 // an@an.vu