Half of Americans now feel loneliness. There might be reasons to do with being raised in a digital environment, where every facet of your life has an associated chatroom or board topic. If you suddenly have an interest in, say origami, there's a topic for it, and all you do is talk about origami. But you bring up an interesting point, which is, how do you bring in the other facets of your life into a narrow topic so that you're not just a culmination of separate topics and interests? I think you as an artist already have the skill, which is to connect these separate ideas, and become the intersection. Living in America, having Vietnamese roots becomes a differentiation. When you go to live in Vietnam, your American roots will be a source of conversational topics. You're also a technologist; you can ask people what they think about generative AI content, perhaps to a farmer who can show you the way they grow dragonfruit. No matter where you physically are, it helps to treat encounters as a chance to explore another person's universe and let them be your tour guide.
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Half of Americans now feel loneliness. There might be reasons to do with being raised in a digital environment, where every facet of your life has an associated chatroom or board topic. If you suddenly have an interest in, say origami, there's a topic for it, and all you do is talk about origami. But you bring up an interesting point, which is, how do you bring in the other facets of your life into a narrow topic so that you're not just a culmination of separate topics and interests? I think you as an artist already have the skill, which is to connect these separate ideas, and become the intersection. Living in America, having Vietnamese roots becomes a differentiation. When you go to live in Vietnam, your American roots will be a source of conversational topics. You're also a technologist; you can ask people what they think about generative AI content, perhaps to a farmer who can show you the way they grow dragonfruit. No matter where you physically are, it helps to treat encounters as a chance to explore another person's universe and let them be your tour guide.