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Mar 2025
4:
How to Travel Cheap and Live Lavishly as a Digital Nomad
Feb 2025
5:
Why Everyone Needs a Solo Retreat (And How It Changed Everything for Me)
Jan 2025
8:
My Favorite Anti-Self-Help Book: Four Thousand Weeks
Dec 2024
5:
Year in Review 2024
Jun 2024
10:
My Top 3 Learnings from the First 3 Months of Building Bachata Library
May 2024
28:
4 Realizations That Made Me Quit My Job, Again 😳
Nov 2023
28:
Year in Review 2023
Oct 2023
30:
Random internet bloggers have changed my life
Sep 2023
6:
My experience dancing bachata in Toronto
Jul 2023
7:
Be ruthlessly honest about why you work
May 2023
15:
Finding Happiness in México City 🇲🇽
May 2023
2:
Single and childfree by default
Apr 2023
18:
Live your life in “chunks”
Apr 2023
6:
I launched two cool projects 🥳
Mar 2023
20:
10 year anniversary of my blog + one important update
Mar 2023
1:
Top Places to Dance Salsa and Bachata in Mexico City (2025)
Feb 2023
21:
I’m not rich but I’m very happy
Jan 2023
10:
🏘️ Tam's Jam: Living at home sucks
Dec 2022
5:
Year in Review 2022
Nov 2022
23:
🚐 Tam's Jam: The life I left behind
Oct 2022
25:
😌 Tam’s Jam: How to Sabbatical (Oct 2022)
Oct 2022
21:
I Took a Bachata Sabbatical For Six Months. It Was Awesome.
Sep 2022
21:
⚡️Tam’s Jam: Most people won’t (Sept 2022)
Sep 2022
13:
Learning Spanish, Making Friends, and Dancing Bachata in Mexico City 🇲🇽
Aug 2022
17:
✏️ Tam's Jam: How to be a lifelong learner (August 2022)
Jul 2022
18:
My Journey On Learning Spanish In Six Months
Jul 2022
11:
🛣 Tam’s Jam: How to know if you’re on the right track (July 2022)
Jun 2022
14:
😠 Tam’s Jam: The cost of living is too dam high (June 2022)
Jun 2022
13:
What Should We Do When It's Too Expensive to Live?
May 2022
30:
My Experience Living with Long COVID in My Twenties
May 2022
14:
Tam’s Jam: Making decisions without exact clarity (May 2022)
Apr 2022
12:
🌎 Tam’s Jam: Uncovering your true desires (April 2022)
Mar 2022
8:
Tam's Jam: Quitting jobs, working in seasons and privilege (March 2022)
Feb 2022
8:
🌵 Tam’s Jam: How to Spend Your Time in a Finite Life (Feb. 2022)
Dec 2021
7:
✨ Tam's Jam: Best of 2021 (Dec 2021)
Dec 2021
1:
Year in Review 2021
Nov 2021
9:
😇 Tam's Jam: High leverage kindness, foreboding joy and high-speed career sampling (Nov 2021)
Nov 2021
5:
High Leverage Kindness: low effort and big impact things you can do to make someone's day
Oct 2021
12:
⛰ Tam's Jam: Making big life decisions, new friendship pyramid, how to stop languishing (October 2021)
Sep 2021
14:
🚲 Tam's Jam: The "Perfect" Body, 80,000 Hours and Not Just Bikes (September 2021)
Aug 2021
10:
💵 Tam's Jam: Psychology of Money, Laziness and Eviction (August 2021)
Jul 2021
6:
🥊 Tam's Jam: Solving my Low Self Esteem Problems, Training for MMA, and Living Life in The Arena (July 2021)
Jun 2021
20:
How to Build Your Perfect Body Without Needing To Look Like a Model
Jun 2021
20:
"I'm a fat piece of shit"
Jun 2021
15:
Make Major Life Decisions With Confidence By Answering Three Simple Questions
Jun 2021
1:
🔆 Tam's Jam: Breath, Light Therapy, and Giving Up On Your Dreams (June 2021)
May 2021
28:
The Opportunity in Giving Up On Your Dreams
May 2021
10:
Tam's Jam (May 2021)
Apr 2021
1:
Tam's Jam (April 2021)
Mar 2021
15:
You Don't Have To Find Your Life Purpose Through Work
Mar 2021
9:
How to Play Taboo Online By Making Your Own Cards (Easy-to-use Template)
Mar 2021
1:
Tam's Jam (March 2021)
Feb 2021
7:
How To Support A Friend Who Is Suffering From The Pandemic
Feb 2021
2:
Tam's Jam (February 2021)
Jan 2021
29:
How to Have Deep and Meaningful Relationships When You Can't See Anyone In-Person
Jan 2021
26:
Year in Review 2020
Nov 2019
28:
Year in Review: 2019
Oct 2019
22:
I Quit My Job to Study Chess for 7 Months and Beat a National Master
Sep 2019
8:
How I Choose What Hobbies to Pursue
Sep 2019
8:
What I Learned About Business From Ramit Sethi's Conference
Apr 2019
6:
Candid Thoughts on Moving from San Francisco to Toronto
Mar 2019
6:
How I Accidentally Met Some Of My Closest Friends
Mar 2019
6:
My Plan to Make Friends From Scratch In a New Country
Feb 2019
27:
A Beautiful and Pessimistic Approach To Life - School of Life Conference
Feb 2019
13:
My Experience Working With a Life Coach - Is It Worth It?
Nov 2018
28:
Year in Review: 2018
Apr 2018
30:
We Started With A Napkin and Ended Up With An Nintendo Wii
Dec 2017
16:
To Easily Meet Interesting People, Go Do Interesting Things
Dec 2017
9:
How To Have Great Conversations With Anyone You Meet
Nov 2017
28:
Year in Review: 2017
Nov 2017
10:
The Fundamental Skill You Must Master Before Anything Else
Jul 2017
25:
The Ideal Employee
Nov 2016
28:
Year In Review: 2016
Sep 2016
6:
What You Should Know Once You Land Your Internship
Jul 2016
10:
Should You Drop Out Of College To Start a Business?
Feb 2016
22:
Don't Quit Your Job If You Want To Start a New Business
Feb 2016
12:
If You Want To Get To The Top, Stop Working Harder
Jan 2016
26:
Why I Love The Five Minute Journal
Jan 2016
10:
How Volunteering Helped Me Connect and Get Hired for 3 Jobs
Jan 2016
8:
Is a College Degree Worth It?
Jan 2016
3:
Year in Review: 2015
Dec 2015
8:
My Blunt Honest Review Of Draper University
Aug 2015
24:
How To Talk To Recruiters At A Job Fair
Aug 2015
16:
Why You Should Stop Asking Professionals For Coffee
Aug 2015
8:
Three Creative Ways To Deepen Your Relationships
Aug 2015
7:
How I got James Altucher, Tim Ferriss and Pat Flynn to Be My Mentors
Aug 2015
6:
How To Explain To Your Parents Why You Want To Drop Out of College
Jul 2015
8:
How To Surround Yourself With The Right People
Jun 2015
21:
Why Stephen Curry Never Should Have Been NBA Champion
Jun 2015
18:
How A Broke Graduate Apprenticed Under Bestselling Authors Ramit Sethi, Seth Godin, and Tim Ferriss
Jun 2015
17:
How To Overcome Any Obstacle In Life - Ryan Holiday's Book Summary
May 2015
28:
21 Pieces of Advice To My 17-Year-Old Self
May 2015
19:
How Michelle Phan Became An "Overnight Success"
May 2015
12:
If You Want To Be, Do
May 2015
3:
When You Open Up, The Whole World Opens Up
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