today is my last day in da nang, vietnam 🇻🇳
here are a few things i learned while being here:
– insane good local food + drink for about $2-3
– the city is right at the ocean which gives it a really special vibe
– rent a scooter (~$50/month), there are so many beautiful places to ride to around here and the freedom it gives you is just on another level
– the area around da nang is stunning, some of the most beautiful scenery i've seen
– right now there are a lot of people here from X, perfect place to meet a ton of new and interesting people
– many cozy coffee shops you can work from
– so many people here right now that chances are high you'll run into someone you know at a random café
– the center is super compact, just small streets everywhere and you can walk to basically everything. perfect for coffee shop hopping and grabbing food in between
– you can walk around at any time of day or night and never feel unsafe
– the locals are incredibly friendly. english is often not spoken that well but it's never a problem to communicate (and honestly that's totally fine, i'm in their country so i should be the one learning their language, can't complain if they don't speak english when i don't speak vietnamese)
– if you rent a scooter watch out for the police, they pull you over and ask for a lot of money. don't pay more than $10 (they wanted $200 from me)
– often went on late night walks on the beach which has a really special vibe
– this is the place if you're trying to go all in and not making money yet. you can live here on $600-800 a month (probably the bare minimum budget but still)
da nang is for me the best place i've been so far to try and build a living with my apps: super cheap, right at the ocean, made some great friends here, and so many people with the same goal :)
Robert Greene: Learn by Doing.
“The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.”
so let me get this straight eileen gu is a product of a single chinese mother with a white egg donor (roughly speaking because he was never involved in her life). & alysa liu is a product of a single chinese father & a white egg donor (via surrogate).
what an absolutely uniquely american dynamic & a changing of the american culture w.r.t. relationships & children.
this type of commodification of reproduction enabling non traditional family structures would likely be legally & socially impossible in china.