Hi! My name is Thư. I was born in Saigon, spent my teens and early twenties in St. Petersburg, Florida, and came back to the city I still think of as home. I live here now with my fiancée.
I’m a product designer at a B2B SaaS startup building private markets infrastructure. Most days I’m untangling workflows shared by fund managers, law firms, and investors, then trying to make the result feel obvious. I like finding simplicity and elegance inside complex systems. Being deep in the craft is where I do my best work, and I have no plans to step away from it. Working with talented, funny, and honest people on challenging problems in this niche has been rewarding.
When I’m not working, I read, write, travel with my fiancée, and spend time with my friends. I journal to think clearly, and some of it eventually ends up here — mostly about tools and systems, home and travel, and trying to live a little more intentionally.
If you want to wander
- What I’m doing now
- How I got into design
- Tools I use
- Blogs I read
- My linklog
A brief history
- Spent a childhood’s worth of hours on LEGO, then started drawing my own comic books
- Moved from Saigon to St. Petersburg, Florida with my family at 14
- Taught myself photography and Photoshop before I was fluent in English
- Made my first $50 in design on a set of band posters for my grandpa
- Shot a lot of photos and videos in those years — some are still on Flickr, an account I’ve long since lost access to, and Instagram
- Learned Premiere Pro and made travel vlogs for fun — YouTube ads paid me about $100, total
- Studied biology, planned on pharmacy school, changed my mind before graduating
- Came back to Saigon after a decade of going back and forth
The longer version of how I got from there to here is in my post Good work.
Connect
You can reach out via email, or message me on Bluesky where I occasionally post photos and memes. I’m not active on any other social media. I log books on Literal and movies on Letterboxd.
If you’re in Saigon, hit me up — I’d love to grab a coffee and hang out.
Colophon
This website is my playground and an extension of myself where I tinker and explore ideas. I created it from scratch with HTML and CSS back in 2020, and the stack remains the same to this day. Here’s a changelog of everything that’s changed since. I use Zed as my code editor. Everything is set in Mona Sans by GitHub and Degarism. Icons are from Phosphor. The site is hosted on GitHub and deployed via Cloudflare Pages. I use Umami for basic analytics, I’m mostly curious how people discover my site and how many look at what specific content.
Support
The best support is hearing your comments, or pointing me to other people’s sites and writing I should check out. Sharing a post with someone who’d enjoy it means a lot. And there’s a Ko-fi, if you ever feel like it.
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