Fraction 4: A bit of housekeeping
Hello and welcome new subscribers. This is a bit of housekeeping and a kind of stock taking. I call these shorter posts “Fractions” because they’re not the whole (or 100%) and I’m funny and clever like that.
I’m Thom Wong. My mum is from Scotland and my dad from China. I grew up in Canada, and now live in London where I work as a content designer for Miro.
I started 100% a year ago after I deleted my Facebook account, as a casual way to maintain the connections I had there. My initial posts were about things close to my heart, namely my friends and family.
There’s the post about my dad making me sandwiches, my mum fighting my illiteracy, and my sister helping me search for a book that doesn’t exist. I still really like those early posts.
Then I wrote about “emotional socialism”, which was really my fancy way of saying we should be nice to people when we have the reserves to be nice. I don’t want to say that was a turning point because I continued to write about family, notably my aunt’s funeral and my grandfather being deported from the UK after the Second World War. But it was definitely the first of my posts to carry a “bigger idea”.
Now, and this is still weird for me, most of you are here because of those ideas and not because you met me at school or work or a cafe in Paris. Which is super cool. Hello. It’s really nice you’re here.
The mix moving forward will be the same as it’s been up until now. Some ideas interspersed with some personal reflections and the occasional top ten list. If that isn’t exactly what you signed up for, I understand. There’s a lot to read and a lot to do. I’m glad you stopped by at all.
Stay safe out there.