- Memoir
- Real life
- Comeback
- Markets
- Freedom
Breakout
Free, but falling
At forty I left my corporate job to bet on myself. Then the market took a year of progress in one afternoon. This is what happens next, written week by week, as it happens.
Ongoing · new chapter weekly · 2 chapters · by Viet Phan X
Start here · Chapter One · Oct 24–30
The Numbers Game
Sunday, a little before three. My mom made phở again. It's a whole morning's work: beef, bones, pork, a bag of herbs. She'd made it on Saturday too, and sitting at the kitchen table I understood something I'd somehow missed for forty years. Sharing a meal is the point. People spent most of their history around a fire, eating together; the brain pays you for it. On the walk afterward I couldn't let it go:
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About this book
I'm Viet. At forty I quit a corporate career to trade, build software and dance more. I'm writing down what happens before I know how it ends.
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