this post is a lil different than usual

not me yapping about tech again

this post is a little different than usual because I’m not gonna write about anything related to technology, or social media, or how your mom is so bad at texting, but rather the history of this blog and how it came to be as it is today. Why? because I need to clear my head a little bit about this blog. Also not edited because I’m a little bit too exhausted this week and I have to finish this post before the week ends.

so if you don’t already know me, I’m Duy, and I’m currently living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

the reason I started this blog was because of a challenge in which I participated a year ago, hosted by

MỞ - Mơ và Hỏi

. When I first started, I didn’t know what to write about. I sucked so hard at giving life advice, I didn’t feel creditable enough to write about business or work, I want to write about something more tangible, something that is more practical. And there was only one thing I could write about:

The Game Design Series

to talk about my learnings about game design, basically about what makes games feel good and what doesn’t . It works at the time. I completed the challenge and got the deposit back.

but I cannot continue to write about games, no one would like to read that. People would like some things that have values for them, and game design’s value to my audience is is non-existent. These posts flopped so hard that it hurt my ego every time I hit ‘post’. I need to write about something else.

I tried product design. but I am a mere student - having neither deep understanding or first hand experience to explain product design, as well as one million other bloggers writing about the topic. I felt like I was just copying and pasting what everyone was saying and pretending that it’s mine. It was exhausting.

then I find it. EUREKA. something more tangible, something more practical, something everybody could relate to immediately, I’m going to write about TECHNOLOGY.

Am I creditable enough to write about technology? absolutely not, but there was no creditability police to stop me. I have written 25 of them up until now and am still going.

but why do I insist on writing this blog? Shouldn’t I probably go outside and touch grass? I honestly don’t know. Ideas just keep coming and I just keep writing. I can only say that I’m really good at obsessing and wanting to research things, and I need a space to let it all out. I have to admit that I don’t really have any plans for this blog in the near future (if you know how to make one, please helpp).

But I kind of get what I want to write and what people would like to read about. I also like the fact that I could do whatever experiments I want on this blog: in a span of a year, this blog’s name has changed 3 times, the illustration style has changed 3 - 4 times, I added polls, and then took them away, and then added them back again, and many other tiny little things. I feel joy in trying those things out and am still making some little experiments for my upcoming blogs.

I don’t really promote the blog now, part of me is not comfortable with broadcasting things on social media (the reason why I flee to substack lol), and part of me is lazy. But I guess promoting is something logical to do because otherwise this blog would be my malnourished brainchild. So if one day you think that one of my blogs will interest your friends, pleaseeeeee share it with them, I would reallyyyyy appreciate it and will (try to) send you a thank you note <3.

what is the future of this blog?

I can’t say. There certainly would be 30-ish posts to come because I already have them in my drafts and maybe many more in the future. There are also things I’d like to play around a little bit, like polls, notes, audio, etc. I hope that I can find out more about what you and I like about this blog in the future.

Thank you, my favourite hundred-ish people. I love you guys as much as I love Tiktok.

P/s: Oh, if you have any comments about this blog, like:

• what you want me to write about

• how you think the content of this blog can be better illustrated

• how my writing is a crime against humanity and that I need to learn 300 other courses about writing before even thinking about writing a blog post again

please

I would love to read them all.