1. On Starting Something That Wasn’t Meant to Be Public
All the randomness from K
Hey, there
So if you’re reading this, welcome to my new, very private—and genuinely intimate—newsletter.
At the moment, only a couple dozen of you are receiving this.
Once again, thank you for letting me share the small, unfiltered contents of my brain.
I’ve been writing for a while now.
Publicly, mostly.
Which means—over time—I’ve also gotten used to explaining things.
Adding context.
Smoothing edges that didn’t necessarily need smoothing.
종종 너무 몸사리고 투머치 센서링하고….
Not because anyone asked me to.
Just because that’s what happens when something is “out there.”
It becomes easier to anticipate how it will be received than to simply write it as it is.
This newsletter is an attempt to do the opposite.
Or at least, something slightly close to that.
This is a space that isn’t fully public.
Not entirely private either.
But slightly open enough that I don’t feel the need to explain everything all the time.
That I don’t have to add caveats to everything.
I mean, I like qualifiers, but sometimes they take more effort than they’re worth.
I don’t have a fixed schedule for this.
I’m not entirely sure how often this will go out.
Or what it will look like a few months from now.
That’s intentional.
There are already enough things in life that require consistency, structure, and output.
This doesn’t need to be one of them.
BUT I will try to send out at least one every week.
What you can expect, though, is this:
Not fully formed ideas.
Not particularly polished thoughts.
But things that are closer to how they actually exist in my head before they get organized into something more “presentable.”
Some of it might be about what I’m working on.
Projects that are still in progress.
Things I’m testing, building, & reconsidering.
Some of it will be more personal.
Decisions I’m not entirely sure about yet.
Moments that feel insignificant now, but might not be later.
And occasionally—
just things I wouldn’t normally say out loud. Possibly with some profanities.
There will probably be a mix of English and Korean.
Not deliberately.
Just depending on which language feels more precise at the time.
Some things translate better one way than the other.
Some don’t translate at all.
I’m not going to try too hard to fix that.
If you’re here, it’s likely because we’ve crossed paths in some way.
Directly or indirectly.
It means I don’t have to start from zero.
Or explain things as if they need to stand on their own.
There’s already some shared context.
And for this kind of writing, that’s enough.
저를 이미 아시는 분들이니까요. 조금 부족하더라도, 표현이 조금 어색하더라도 이해해주시겠죠.
I’m not sure how useful this will be.
It’s not meant to be particularly instructive.
Or actionable. At all.
But it might feel familiar.
Hopefully, interesting enough.
In the sense that some of the thoughts here are things you’ve probably had as well—
just not written down.
For now, that’s the point.
Not to make something better.
Just to make something a little less filtered.
And see what happens from there.
이렇게 시작해 봅니다.
별 내용은 아닐 거 같고요. 그냥 친구와 만나서 수다떠는 기분으로 쓸 예정입니다.
최근에 제가 많이 생각하는 건 앞으로 어떻게 살아야하나. 하는 거고요.
그리고 부동산 프로젝트를 고민하고 있다고 스레드에서 보셨을텐데요. 그래서 요즘 집을 보러 다니고 있습니다.
I have a lot to say on this topic alone. So…
What I’ve been writing lately is that rental properties aren’t a particularly worthwhile investment right now in places like Vancouver. So we (my husband and I) are in the process of shedding our personally owned rental properties—only two left while I will still keep properties under my holdco. (이런 number 관련된 부분에서는 조금 더 솔직하게 써보려고 합니다.)
