Advanced programming
I only was able to program later in life when I was fed up working overnights.
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 “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.
We collaborated and made our own Windows Debloaters. Ben’s idea. Ben pushed me to become more than a computer technician and do what I like.
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.