Happy 7 years of newsletter writing

Paid subscription discounts & a reflection on 7 years of writing emails

🔎 In Focus

🔎 In Focus: Interview with photographer Michael Flores

And, some other things I'm trying out for December

Behind the scenes of writing about Vietnamese-owned coffee businesses

Welcome to my writing anxiety loop.

My writing process

A detailed look at what goes into a reported & researched article

An update on learning Mandarin

Did you know there are three ways to say "walk"?

Remembering Twitter

An eulogy of sorts, #coffeetwitter

Changes

“The only constant is change,” a sentence I’ve probably written half a dozen times over to describe social media but I’m sure it’s been used to describe life, too.

Should business owners be on social media?

And my latest article on growing coffee as a houseplant

Some career goals

The goals that The Artist’s Way inspired

🔎 In Focus

🔎 In Focus: Nickey Huynh

An interview with the illustrator behind Niche Create, where we discuss cultural expectations, mental health, and creative inspiration

Relearning a language

Wrestling with inevitable complex emotions

"You have a lot of passions"

Recalling my most boring first date