FirstGenProgrammer

A resource for immigrants, refugees and 2nd generation

FirstGenProgrammer

A resource for immigrants, refugees and 2nd generation

General

Updates (Mar 17, 2026)

The secret is just to work.

So after conversations … the routine is:

  1. Talk fun with your worldwide friends
  2. Talk business with your worldwide friends
  3. Repeat 1. 2.
  4. Repeat 1. 2.
  5. Reflect
  6. Think
  7. Somehow you solve the rumination and you get some new ideas
  8. Do some of the new ideas

The trick is to think and build like forward people. That means build, learn, grow and open the mind like Western people.

As long as you can do that sometimes you are OK.

Sometimes as a Vietnamese 2nd gen, you must land thinking Vietnamese.

It is to recharge and fly again.

Listen to Vietnamese music before 1975 and some modern ones in 2022+.

Cycle back and forth.

That is the key. But always moving forward overall.

Like you should learn and grow all the time. Do that internally as the first goal. But if I think I do that, it seems odd and off. But everyone has the goal to learn and also escape to the beaches.

You need to learn all the time like past immigrants. That is all it is.

Just know and acknowledge that quietly.

Secret to running … LINK