Year in Review 2025
The biggest lessons I've learned in my 20s.
Tam Pham's Blog
Tam Pham is the founder of Bachata Library.
Latest posts
How to Go On a Sabbatical That Will Change Your Life
How two sabbaticals became incredible life experiences that helped me create a life that I love.
How to Travel Cheap and Live Lavishly as a Digital Nomad
I share my biggest tips on living lavishly on a budget while traveling the world as a digital nomad.
Why Everyone Needs a Solo Retreat (And How It Changed Everything for Me)
"Wow, I really can't do this for the next 30+ years"
My Favorite Anti-Self-Help Book: Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks taught me how to accept our limitations and make wiser and more meaningful choices with the 4,000 weeks we have on Earth.
Year in Review 2024
Quitting my job to start Bachata Library, changing my mind on the nomad life, and why nothing else matters but love.
My Top 3 Learnings from the First 3 Months of Building Bachata Library
I recently quit my job to start Bachata Library - a course to transform people into amazing Bachata dancers. Here are the top 3 things that I've learned over my first 3 months.
4 Realizations That Made Me Quit My Job, Again 😳
How a solo retreat to México helped me realize I needed to leave my job and start Bachata Library, a course that helps people become amazing Bachata dancers.
Year in Review 2023
Every year on my birthday, I reflect on my highs, lows, and everything in between. This tradition is an amazing way to measure backward and appreciate how far I've come. Here's how my 2023 went.
Random internet bloggers have changed my life
You need someone to show you the light. To show you what's possible. To model what a different life could look like.
My experience dancing bachata in Toronto
The bachata scene in Toronto got a glow-up! This is my personal experience learning, teaching, and dancing sensual bachata in Toronto, Canada.
Be ruthlessly honest about why you work
There's a gap between your current and your ideal relationship to work. How risky would it be to make a change? Or at least a step in the right direction?
Finding Happiness in México City 🇲🇽
I feel so alive and myself in México. This post is dedicated to my top five reasons why I love it here, the downsides, and my philosophy on choosing where to live.
Single and childfree by default
Why getting married and buying at house at 30 is a stupid goal. And how to think about having kids + choosing your life partner.
Live your life in “chunks”
I didn’t realize it at the time but I had been living my adult life in roughly 4-year chunks.