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🏘️ Tam's Jam: Living at home sucks

In this issue: car-centric suburbia, American poverty, the US-Mexico border, strong passwords, walking away from the NBA, and more!

🏘️ Tam's Jam: Living at home sucks
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🚐 Tam's Jam: The life I left behind

Heyo! I’m celebrating Thanksgiving and my bday with family in San Diego. ✌️ I wanted to shoot this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam before the holidays. Plus share a Black Friday deal on a Spanish course that I took this year and highly recommend. In this issue: resources

🚐 Tam's Jam: The life I left behind
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😌 Tam’s Jam: How to Sabbatical (Oct 2022)

Heyo from Los Angeles, CA! I just came back from an unforgettable Europe trip. It was both amazing and totally exhausting... Planning to hibernate for the rest of the year. ✌️ I’m back with this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam: my curated collection of resources and lessons around

😌 Tam’s Jam: How to Sabbatical (Oct 2022)
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⚡️Tam’s Jam: Most people won’t (Sept 2022)

Heyo from Sevilla, Spain! I’m back with this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam: my curated collection of resources and lessons around living a meaningful life. Welcome to all the new people who have joined recently! My custom Taboo cards and my article, What Should We Do When

⚡️Tam’s Jam: Most people won’t (Sept 2022)
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✏️ Tam's Jam: How to be a lifelong learner (August 2022)

Heyo from CDMX! 🇲🇽 I’m back with this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam: my curated collection of resources and lessons around living a meaningful life. You know that special feeling where you’re doing something new, and you feel the momentum, and you see real progress in your

✏️ Tam's Jam: How to be a lifelong learner (August 2022)
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🛣 Tam’s Jam: How to know if you’re on the right track (July 2022)

In this issue: Accelerating personal breakthroughs, creating your guiding questions, making friends in business, climbing mountains that don’t exist and more. Vamos!

🛣 Tam’s Jam: How to know if you’re on the right track (July 2022)
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😠 Tam’s Jam: The cost of living is too dam high (June 2022)

Heyo! I’m back with this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam [https://www.tampham.co/tag/tams-jam/]: my curated collection of resources and lessons around living a meaningful life. I’ve received several messages over the years asking how they could support my work. I’ve always brushed

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Tam’s Jam: Making decisions without exact clarity (May 2022)

Heyo! I’m back with this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam: my curated collection of resources and lessons around living a meaningful life. I just spent three weeks in Mérida, Yucatan [https://www.instagram.com/p/CdQ_Q5vL9B4/] and I am currently on my 2nd week in Mexico

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🌎 Tam’s Jam: Uncovering your true desires (April 2022)

Heyo! I’m back with this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam: my curated collection of resources and lessons around living a meaningful life. Quick life update: I sadly had to leave Toronto because of VISA issues (again) and I’m back in Los Angeles with my family. In

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Tam's Jam: Quitting jobs, working in seasons and privilege (March 2022)

Heyo! Quick life updates from me: * I just quit my job [https://www.facebook.com/ChatWithTamPham/posts/5543792172301771] after 3 years of working with MMT. I was a community builder, experience designer & facilitator, content writer & manager, people manager, operations... and everything in between. I had an amazing experience

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🌵 Tam’s Jam: How to Spend Your Time in a Finite Life (Feb. 2022)

Heyo! I’m back with this month’s issue of Tam’s Jam, a collection of books, videos and (my personal) lessons learned around living a meaningful life. I missed last month’s issue for a myriad of reasons: testing positive for COVID and needing to take care of my

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✨ Tam's Jam: Best of 2021 (Dec 2021)

I put together the best articles, books and links that I've found/published in 2021 around living a more meaningful life. Enjoy!

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😇 Tam's Jam: High leverage kindness, foreboding joy and high-speed career sampling (Nov 2021)

Heyo! In this issue, we have my new article on high leverage kindness, why experiencing joy is so vulnerable, and strategies on finding meaningful work via infinite games and high-speed career sampling. Let's dive in. — ⛰ High Leverage Kindness: low effort and big impact things you can do to

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⛰ Tam's Jam: Making big life decisions, new friendship pyramid, how to stop languishing (October 2021)

Heyo! In this issue, we have my new article on making big life decisions with confidence, my review on three books I loved reading last month, the Arabic friendship pyramid, a new TED talk by Adam Grant on languishing and more goodies below the fold. Let's dive in.

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🚲 Tam's Jam: The "Perfect" Body, 80,000 Hours and Not Just Bikes (September 2021)

Heyo! In this issue, we have my new article on building your "perfect" body, an epic career guide for people who care a lot about making a difference, and an exploration into beautiful urban planning. Let's dive in. — 💪 How to Build Your Perfect Body Without Needing

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💵 Tam's Jam: Psychology of Money, Laziness and Eviction (August 2021)

Heyo! The sun is out in Toronto. I'm hugging friends again, taking dance classes, joining a softball league (first time), enrolling in Muay Thai classes (first time) and biking around the city. After being isolated for so long it feels both amazing and wild to be doing "

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🥊 Tam's Jam: Solving my Low Self Esteem Problems, Training for MMA, and Living Life in The Arena (July 2021)

Heyo! I just launched pre-orders for my new course, Life in The Arena [https://www.tampham.co/life-in-the-arena/]. There is always a lot of fear and uncertainty when launching something new. Will people buy? Will this new product actually transform someone's life? What happens if I fail? Ironically,

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🔆 Tam's Jam: Breath, Light Therapy, and Giving Up On Your Dreams (June 2021)

Heyo! 👋 Welcome to another issue of Tam's Jam where I share the most interesting stories and resources I've found to help you live a happier and more meaningful life. It's summertime here in Toronto and after being one of the longest lockdowns in the

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Tam's Jam (May 2021)

Heyo! 👋 I'm writing this from my new apartment in Toronto. Traveling back from the states has been incredibly stressful and the lockdown here doesn't make it easier. But I'm so grateful to be back up north and have my own space to call home.

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Tam's Jam (April 2021)

Heyo! 👋 I'm writing this from a hotel room in Toronto (mandatory quarantine for international travelers). I had to leave last November because of some VISA issues and I'm so happy to be back up north! 🇨🇦 In this month's issue, you will find two new

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Tam's Jam (March 2021)

Heyo! 👋 Thank you for all the kind words to everyone who replied back to my last email. Your enthusiasm gives me a ton of motivation to make each issue of Tam's Jam better than the last one. Below you will find one new essay that I've

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Tam's Jam (February 2021)

Tam's Jam is a monthly email series where I share new essays that I've published along with the best articles that I've found around (1) finding more meaning in your life and (2) building deep friendships with awesome people. Enjoy!