Dust Notes

7,777 kilometers – the distance from Vietnam to Europe. It sounds extraordinary. But it didn’t come from exceptional talent or rare bursts of brilliance. It

During long coffee chats, when stories have meandered through every topic from work to current affairs, I often suddenly ask my friends a question: “Who

Having journeyed through more than half of my life and tasted its many highs and lows, I have come to realize: True peace does not

I recently witnessed two situations where people suddenly transformed themselves into “prophets” or “medical experts” just to satisfy their own egos. These stories left me

I used to view “financial freedom” as a distant, even delusional concept reserved only for the ultra-wealthy. This mindset kept me hesitating for a long

I have this old friend. We haven’t worked together in over five years, but every time I hit him up for a few beers, he

Five years ago, I was in a leadership training session with a woman who had over 25 years of HR experience, managing giants with over

I’ve stood in some of the most breathtaking places on Earth, only to realize I wasn’t actually there. My body was in a paradise of

For the past ten years, whenever I hit a beautiful coastline, I’ve kept a habit that most people call insane: I swim out. Way out.

For a long time, I was hemorrhaging my life’s most valuable assets without even noticing. I was trapped in the “80/20 trap” of mediocrity: Even