Code, Hardware & Human Consciousness

Vipassana 102: Sleepless Solitude, the Endless Thought Stream, and Lessons That Took Years to Land

August 28, 2026

Sitting 10 hours daily with an active mind: breath focus, the hot water bucket night routine, sleepless nights in Room 28, and why the quiet lessons of Vipassana took years to surface.

Vipassana 101: How an Accidental 12-Day Silent Retreat Rewired My Tech Mind

August 27, 2026

How an accidental signup during a WordPress crash led to 12 days of noble silence in July 2020, and what enduring stillness taught a Data/BI startup founder about pain, impermanence, and ego.

Why the Best AI Tech Stack Is from 1995 (HTML, CSS, JS, SQL)

August 25, 2026

Why 30-year-old primitives—HTML, CSS, JS, and SQL—run circles around modern frameworks when building with AI agents, from Windows 3.11 FoxPro to Alpine and SQLite.

How I Used AI to Fight a Multi-Jurisdiction Lawsuit Without a Law Firm

August 24, 2026

How a solo founder used a two-model AI pipeline (Gemini and Claude) across Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, and the US to replace a 20-person legal discovery team, expose falsified board minutes, and dismantle the Big Law billing pyramid.

AI Coding & The Master Stylesheet: Building Your Living Design Language

July 27, 2026

Why AI models suffer from UI drift, how living stylesheet pages anchor LLMs, and how hand-tweaking CSS tokens maintains consistent design quality.

Second Brains for Teams: Organisational AI Without the Complexity

July 22, 2026

Why every team needs an organizational second brain, and how a maintained knowledge repository linked to local AI beats multi-million dollar enterprise platforms.

ESP32 + CM4/CM5: Our Hardware Architecture for Self-Hosted AIoT

July 14, 2026

The two-tier hardware stack behind our AIoT deployments, combining low-power ESP32 edge nodes with a CM4/CM5 local core to keep telemetry on-site.

Rust on ESP32 and Single-Board Computers: Our Embedded Stack

July 10, 2026

Why Rust replaced C and Python scripts in our embedded systems, providing memory safety on ESP32, single static binaries on SBCs, and reliable agentic generation.

The Lean Stack: Why We Went Back to HTML, CSS, and Fundamentals

July 4, 2026

How Alpine.js, htmx, Bulma, Bun, and Hono replaced complex frontend pipelines in our work, and why self-hosting forms the core of a resilient local AI stack.

Which AI Level Are You? (Why Most Are Stuck at Level 1 or 2)

April 16, 2026

A practical 5-level framework for assessing AI workflow maturity, from basic chat prompts to autonomous multi-agent systems.

AI Minions and the New Operating System for Work

March 18, 2026

How multi-agent AI execution loops and autonomous subagents are reshaping startup workflows and organizational throughput.

Technology Is Real Power: The New Rules of Influence

March 3, 2026

Why core software, protocol control, and physical infrastructure dictate real-world influence across modern industries.

The Rise of the One-Person Dev Team

March 1, 2026

How individual engineers orchestrate agentic workflows, multi-screen setups, and large context models to deliver full software architectures independently.

Our servers were attacked on Vietnamese New Year 2026 by a Vietnamese Botnet - 18th Feb 2026.

February 19, 2026

How a Redis caching incident triggered a holiday outage during Vietnamese New Year 2026, and how automated diagnostics restored server uptime.

AI Automation for Leaders Workshop, Jan 2026

January 20, 2026

Key takeaways from our AI automation workshop for executives, focusing on mindset shifts and high-leverage agent workflows.

Dev ơi đừng sợ AI! Bạn mới là người nắm giữ tương lai!

December 29, 2025

Phân tích lợi thế cấu trúc của lập trình viên trong kỷ nguyên AI và cách tận dụng công cụ tự động hóa để nâng cao năng suất.

The (Software) Developer Advantage: Why AI is your future, not your Fear

December 29, 2025

Why software engineers with systems-level knowledge have a structural advantage when orchestrating and verifying AI code generation.

Digital Forensic with AI 101 - Corporate Espionage by NS and DNS manipulation

December 23, 2025

A technical review of digital forensic methods for investigating DNS hijacking, unauthorized nameserver modifications, and infrastructure compromise.

Founder Psychology: Using the Light and Dark Triad Framework

May 25, 2025

Applying the Light and Dark Triad psychological framework to founder dynamics, executive due diligence, and partnership integrity.

Mental Health for Founders: The Core Operating System of Life and Leadership

May 9, 2025

Why psychological resilience and mental health serve as the foundational operating system for startup founders and engineering leaders.

From Mad Scientist to Serial Tech Entrepreneur: My Founder Journey

April 30, 2025

Reflections on transitioning from hands-on laboratory research and software engineering to scaling venture-backed tech startups.

The AI Tipping Point: What Founders and CXOs Should Do Next

March 30, 2025

Strategic steps for founders and executive teams navigating AI automation, organizational readiness, and technical workflow shifts.

From Cash to Courage: Startup Leadership Lessons on Meaning, Risk, and Resilience

February 14, 2025

Lessons on risk, resilience, and personal alignment after exiting corporate engineering and navigating early-stage startups.

Digital Transformation for CXOs: A Practical Leadership Framework

January 2, 2025

A pragmatic framework for enterprise leaders modernizing data architecture, engineering culture, and internal systems.

AI is my Co-founder, VC Mentor, Ghostwriter, and Coffee Buddy

November 15, 2023

How specialized AI tools and agent workflows enhance engineering execution, research synthesis, and day-to-day productivity.

Navigating Employee Dynamics & Decoding Performance with M.A.C.E: A Leadership Tool

September 18, 2023

How leaders make objective hiring, promotion, and termination decisions by analyzing Mindset, Ability, Context, and Expectation.

The Five-Step Framework for Effective Task Delegation for Managers

September 16, 2023

How managers ensure an ever-expanding team stays empowered and efficient using a five-step framework: Define, Delegate, Support, Check, and Show/Praise.

How to Find Your Co-founder? Tips for First-Time Founders

July 1, 2023

A comprehensive framework for first-time founders to identify who you need, leverage VC networks, assess complementary skillsets, and evaluate personal lifestyle compatibility.

[IOTD][#12] Technology shaping perspectives

October 25, 2018

How long can you keep up with new technology? Early electronics tinkering, shifting childhood baselines, and dedicated iPad mini FaceTime setup.

[IOTD][#11] Today I choose my commute

October 4, 2018

My morning commute is horrible, today I made it not so much. Saigon traffic, iPhone SE bridge view, Apple Watch Breathe reminder, and pause and feel.

[IOTD][#10] I’m a world traveller, but it’s not the typical definition you think

September 22, 2018

Why world travel is about exploring people, perspectives, and blindspots in daily conversations rather than physical passport stamps.

[IOTD][#9] Questioning life

September 19, 2018

Everything you do daily is a consequence of choices: commuting hours, 9-to-5 schedules, lunchtime conditioning, and establishing your own baseline.

[M.A.C.E] Management perspective

September 17, 2018

Revisiting Conditions and Expectations from management perspective: title hard power, team culture, personal situations, and setting right expectations.

[IOTD][#8] Having lunch alone

September 13, 2018

Going against networking default to eat alone, stroll down the street, explore small alleyways, pace for self-reflection, and discover new routines.

[IOTD][#7] Leaving a legacy

September 12, 2018

Flipping the perspective from who we should be to what kind of legacies and stories of character people will remember after we are gone.

[IOTD][#2] My definition of mediation

August 30, 2018

Redefining meditation beyond yoga mats: motorcycle joyrides, subconscious flow, repetitive morning chores, and being alone with your thoughts.

My lessons on leadership

August 8, 2018

Lessons from a 10-year startup journey: servant leadership, delegation without support as abdication, checking without micromanaging, and showing off team work.

[M.A.C.E] Introduction to framework

May 6, 2018

A performance-assessment thought framework evaluating Mindset, Ability, Condition, and Expectation for objective hiring, promotion, and demotion decisions.

Staying productive and effective while on Slack

June 15, 2016

Actionable tips for reclaiming time on Slack: meaningful channel names, keyboard shortcuts, muting non-essentials, push settings, and keyword triggers.

My secret to getting rid of burnout permanently

August 24, 2014

Why inability to take breaks is not the real cause of burnout, how to identify what you cannot miss out on, and scheduling regular life-saving checkpoints.