Laughs, Life & Everything In Between
Somewhere between the motivational TikTok that convinced you to start a small business and the twelve half-poured candles currently fossilizing in your garage, something went wrong. This is a love letter — and a small, tasteful funeral — for every passion project that died quietly in a browser tab you're too guilty to close.
You just got out of a perfectly good therapy session where a licensed professional told you that you're making progress and your coping mechanisms are healthy. Then you open your phone, paste a screenshot of a text from your ex into the group chat, and six people immediately tell you that you need to block him, see a therapist, and possibly move to a different state. Welcome to crowdsourced mental health — it's free, it's chaotic, and it never sleeps.
Somewhere between your morning commute and the gym you never go to, you promised yourself you'd finally finish that eight-part true crime series about a guy who definitely did it. That was 2021. The podcast is still sitting there, judging you from episode two. Welcome to the Podcast Graveyard — population: all of us.
Modern friendship has quietly become a full-time administrative job, complete with group chats that feel like staff meetings and contacts you haven't spoken to since the Obama administration. It's time to conduct a friendship audit — and yes, that means having some mildly awkward conversations about who actually makes the cut.
A growing number of Americans are voluntarily unplugging from their iPhones and returning to the humble landline — not because they can't afford the upgrade, but because they've decided the upgrade was actually a downgrade. We investigated the psychology, the people, and the very real question of whether this is genuine freedom or just the most expensive kind of nostalgia money can buy.
Unfollowing someone online shouldn't feel like filing for divorce, and yet here we are, sweating through our shirts over a single tap. We've somehow decided that our social media follower lists are sacred documents that require notarization and a grief counselor to amend. It's time to talk about why digital disconnection feels so catastrophically personal — and why it absolutely doesn't have to.
Somewhere between a lopsided pottery bowl and a CrossFit coach screaming at me to 'embrace the suck,' I had a quiet revelation: maybe not everyone is meant to find their passion, and maybe that's perfectly fine. I spent an embarrassing amount of money sampling the trendiest hobby trial classes America has to offer, and I am here to report back with findings that are equal parts humbling and hilarious. Spoiler: I am not a ceramicist.
American dating apps are basically a wildlife documentary, and you, dear reader, are both the camera crew and the unsuspecting gazelle. From the guy holding a fish to the woman whose entire personality is 'fluent in sarcasm,' GoTillman breaks down every archetype haunting your For You page — and somehow makes it hurt less.
Somewhere between your third side hustle and your fifth motivational podcast, you forgot what it felt like to just exist. GoTillman is here to hand you the permission slip you never knew you needed — consider this your official license to be magnificently, unapologetically unproductive.