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May 11

How Does the Dyson V15 Do in a Carpeted House With 4+ Pets?

Can it stand up to 3 months of pet hair and filth buildup? Earlier this year, I was complaining about our vacuum to my partner when he casually mentioned, “Oh, by the way, our vacuum was recalled.” …

Lifestyle

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How Does the Dyson V15 Do in a Carpeted House With 4+ Pets?
How Does the Dyson V15 Do in a Carpeted House With 4+ Pets?
Lifestyle

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Mar 3

This Is the Best Financial Advice I Have for You

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. …

Finance

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This Is the Best Financial Advice I Have for You
This Is the Best Financial Advice I Have for You
Finance

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Jan 31

How I Used Social Media To Make Last Month Insanely Productive

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…

Productivity

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How I Used Social Media To Make Last Month Insanely Productive
How I Used Social Media To Make Last Month Insanely Productive
Productivity

4 min read


Jan 29

The Most Important Thing To Do Is Anything at All

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. …

Productivity

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The Most Important Thing To Do Is Anything at All
The Most Important Thing To Do Is Anything at All
Productivity

4 min read


Jan 23

Learn To Model a Creature Character in Blender Today

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…

3d Modeling

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Learn To Model a Creature Character in Blender Today
Learn To Model a Creature Character in Blender Today
3d Modeling

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Jan 17

My 5 Healthy Habits for 2023

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…

Health

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My 5 Healthy Habits for 2023
My 5 Healthy Habits for 2023
Health

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Jan 10

Build Your Own Curriculum To Learn Anything

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…

Productivity

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Build Your Own Curriculum To Learn Anything
Build Your Own Curriculum To Learn Anything
Productivity

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Jan 8

How I’m Setting Goals for 2023 Quarter 1

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…

Productivity

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How I’m Setting Goals for 2023 Quarter 1
How I’m Setting Goals for 2023 Quarter 1
Productivity

8 min read


Oct 26, 2022

How To Learn A New Skill And Make It Stick

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…

Self Improvement

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How To Learn A New Skill And Make It Stick
How To Learn A New Skill And Make It Stick
Self Improvement

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Oct 14, 2022

Outline a Novel: 5 Steps To Prep For NaNoWriMo

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…

Writing

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Outline a Novel: 5 Steps To Prep For NaNoWriMo
Outline a Novel: 5 Steps To Prep For NaNoWriMo
Writing

8 min read

Alyssa Blackwell

Alyssa Blackwell

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A software dev / creative ✨ writing about game dev, mobile apps, productivity, and self-improvement ☕ https://ko-fi.com/savallion

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