I love budgeting. I really do. I love pretty much anything that you can do with a spreadsheet, though it’s been years since I have actually used a spreadsheet for budgeting. I just like working with numbers, figures, things that can be organized. …

Social media gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons: It’s a mindless way to lose several hours of your life while gaining next to nothing It can encourage people to compare themselves to others and feel badly about their own life It’s filled with advertisements waiting to slurp…

Doing things is hard. I’m writing this as part admission of guilt and part motivation. We all want things. Well, most of us want things. I suppose there’s some small sliver of the population that has reached enlightenment, and identified all “wanting” as the source of human suffering. …

Game development is more accessible to beginners now than it has ever been before. There are multiple full-featured engines waiting with open arms to accept the new dev, eager to learn. I just wish that more beginners were willing to embrace 3D art as well. 2D is fine, and typically…

New year, new me, right? I already talked about how I set goals for the New Year (spoiler alert: I don’t set yearly goals, I set quarterly ones), but I wanted to dive deeper into my fitness goals. Fitness is almost inextricably tied to the New Year, as it comes…

The internet is a vast ocean of educational materials. And… other stuff, too, but I want to talk about its educational potential. You can learn anything you want from the internet, and you don’t even have to look that hard for most of it. Type “how to” into Google, and…

And what those goals actually are. We’re at the precipice of another new year, if you can believe it. I’ve never been one for resolutions in their traditional form, as they tend to be too vague to be useful, but I love using the energy of a new year to…

Whether you are in school, preparing for a new job, building a career, or just living your life, learning new skills is a way to grow and improve the outcomes. The problem is that learning can be hard, especially the way it is often presented to school-age children. This is…

NaNoWriMo is shorthand for National Novel Writing Month, a self-serve writing challenge that takes place in November each year. There’s an official challenge run by the founding non-profit at their website nanowrimo.org, but anyone can participate because the goal is simple enough to be accessible to any writer. Write 50,000…