Advanced programming
I only was able to program later in life when I was fed up working nights.
I had a lot of interactions at work and saw many coworkers live a life true to them and also aspire for more even while working 9 – 5.
When I realized I was stagnating and living the bare minimum, I pushed. I had many reasons to push.
Especially working alongside “Western/Westernized people”, I pushed for more.
I live in the West so I might as well live a Western life and just aspire. I am reminded of this daily and especially when I am old now.
My first computing job at AMLCSL.com back in 2017, Al Michael Lane, the owner, said he needed a guy to do web work. He pushed me to study and work using my brain. He pushed me in coding.
In 2020, I started developing small utilities and put them online for free on FreeTimeTech.com that Ben Cybulski founded with me.
It kept growing. We started doing bigger things.
Ben and I collaborated and made our own Windows Debloaters. It was Ben’s idea. Ben pushed me to become more than a computer technician and do what I like and aspire and think like him.
I got the coding mindset from my brother-in-law Simon Fisher and coded.
I branched out and did things with Dmitry Nefedov which are his Sophia projects.
I worked with my cousins in Vietnam: An Nguyen and An Loc.
I worked with my real brother William Nguyen and he made BenchTweakGaming.com.
I also connected with Vietnamese from my old university and current schools. They helped me learn my Vietnamese culture to pursue education and work. I learned to just aspire for education and work like my Vietnamese friends. I built the “Vietnamese mindset” for myself from interacting with stellar Vietnamese.