“The happy man needs nothing and no one.” -Josef Pieper “You NEED to do this!” How many times do you see this phrase online? I’ve written a lot of articles about needing stuff. Here’s a few from my first 6 months as a blogger alone: 11 Things You Need To…

I’m weird. On one hand, I love bettering myself. On the other, I just want to play video games. This week a good friend sat with me at lunch and told me about the routines of successful people they knew. It was ridiculous. From working out daily to reading for…

My first blog was called Findingtom.com. Finding Tom. It was meant to have a double-meaning. Finding Tom as in “Where’s Tom right now?” and Finding Tom as in finding myself. I liked it and was proud of it for quite some time, but I recently realized something important. It was…

Here’s what we can do instead — I hate Thanksgiving. For me, it’s just Christmas without the presents. I will not be celebrating it this year and I haven’t celebrated it on my own for the last five years. “Good job, Tom! Way to stand against the genocide in our history!” Uhh. I actually don’t really register…

P.S. Please stop telling me I’m flip-flopping on this issue — #TWITTERISDEAD I saw that hilarious hashtag trending on Twitter the other day. People are apparently leaving Twitter in droves, preaching about the end of this social media platform. All while daily active users keeps increasing, but let’s not get into that. The point is Elon Musk took over, gave many…

My fiancé and I had two INTENSE discussions the other day. Borderline fights. And we managed to have a beautiful day together nonetheless. We went to a museum on her college campus, made each other laugh, had a nice dinner, and watched Harry Potter. That’s a darn good day if…

There’s two ways to approach life. “Darn, I’m so far from my goal.” “Wow, I’m that much closer to my goal!” A few years ago I started my blogging journey and was averaging about 30–40 views per post.

Look, let’s be honest here.. Medium has seen better days. We all know that. I’ve written about it a lot before and I don’t need to go over all the mistakes this platform’s made since 2018. And you don’t need to read yet another article bashing Medium’s leadership. The truth…

“Damn, I only got 16 views on this in the first 3 hours?” Does that sound familiar to you? Checking your stats page hoping to see an avalanche of views coming in only to get 14 views? Sucks, doesn’t it? Yeah it does, and guess what? It’s your fault. This…