Quitting a Car in 2026: Why I Gave Up Driving in Hanoi and the Ongoing Rewards
Quitting a car in 2026 wasn’t easy after 50,000 km living on the road. Here is why I gave up driving in central Hanoi - and the quiet freedom I found without it.
Quitting a car in 2026 wasn’t easy after 50,000 km living on the road. Here is why I gave up driving in central Hanoi - and the quiet freedom I found without it.
Most people catch 1-2 keywords, then make up the rest. Here is how to listen and write at work, and when you should stop listening.
If money were not the reason, why would I still go to work? After 12 years in marketing, here are my four honest reasons.
For nine months I ran product marketing for an HR software line at one of Vietnam’s biggest software companies. I wrote the packs, ran the ads and brought leads to the webinar. Then I realized that most Vietnamese SaaS products are B2B. As a result, I wouldn’t gain much technical growth, but rather just refine
I started at Language Link as an admin intern in 2013. Six years later I came back to run a product line. It was a hands-on job, and I was not ready for it. Then it went nowhere, so I left. Vu Quynh Anh - Admin intern, 2013 · Product Marketing Supervisor, 10/19 - 2/20
I recruited 120 students for a university program with no history or alumni - while fighting a website that leaked traffic. Here is how it happened.
In 2026 my pages ranked higher than ever, readers stayed longer than ever, and the traffic still fell. Meanwhile the work I am proudest of never shows up in a traffic chart at all. Vu Quynh Anh - SEO writer, then SEO lead, then AI-search and data · ISC Education, 6/2021 - now Two lines
The traffic number from this job looks good on a CV. That is not what I remember. I remember a paid campaign I never planned properly, a localisation programme I could not handle, and an onpage audit I never finished. Vu Quynh Anh - hired as a marketer, survived as an SEO · AhaSlides, 10/2021
What the longest brief of my career taught me about doing marketing without a marketing department. Vu Quynh Anh Social Media Manager (freelance), Himawari Preschool It’s 6 years… Channels I managed: 4 Facebook Pages · Messenger · himawari-preschool.com.vn · landing pages · print and on-site signage Scope of work I was the Social Media Manager,