Second Nature | Sam Vuong | Substack

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AI-defensible living in Okinawa (ft. Koshu Kunii)

The infinity test, information diets, and life beyond optimization

Mar 26 • Sam Vuong and Koshu Kunii

GLP-1s are rewiring how we consume

What happens when we want less?

Mar 19 • Sam Vuong

Serious thinking has gone offline

IRL, reputation, and the rebirth of collective intelligence

Jan 21 • Sam Vuong

Work is how we become human

Work-life balance is a lie. What Montessori taught me about true integration

Nov 24, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Against autocomplete for life

Why friction is becoming the only moat that matters

Oct 15, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Serious thinking has gone offline

IRL, reputation, and the rebirth of collective intelligence

Jan 21 • Sam Vuong

You can just not do things

A guide to building an education more valuable than a college degree.

Sep 11, 2025 • Sam Vuong

How great minds were once formed

Learning that has stood the test of time and why school stifles this

Aug 13, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Don't fly too low

The antidote to stagnation is a curriculum of ambition.

Jul 17, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Where greatness is banned

An education that fears heroes inevitably produces citizens who fear the future

Jul 2, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Podcasts

Second Nature

AI-defensible living in Okinawa (ft. Koshu Kunii)

Beyond Bezos and the Google Founders

building the largest open source dataset of Montessori alumni, weekend side-project edition

Jun 4, 2025 • Sam Vuong and Karel Vuong

Contrarianism is the new alpha

How to think (and raise kids) differently in a conformist world

May 7, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Agency is eating credentialism

Having high agency is a personal moat in the future of work and life

Apr 24, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Microschools are creating more choice in education

The decentralized movement poised to solve some of education's biggest problems

Apr 17, 2025 • Sam Vuong

On cello, cantonese, and learning from scratch

The case for self-directed learning and discoveries as an adult beginner

Apr 10, 2025 • Sam Vuong

Second Nature

Second Nature

Founder and writer. I write about how culture and technology shape who we become.

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