Daniel Bourke

Creating

Multiply yourself

40,049 students from 164 countries around the world and counting.

Life and Living

All I want to be is present

What's it all about?

Decision Making

How fast is your OODA loop?

Originally developed for Air Force combat, the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) can be applied in any battle. Even when the opponent is oneself.

Life and Living

No competition

Set the system up so you always win.

Life and Living

Alive but already dead

What are you scared of? She asked. Nothing. Really? Yes. Not even death? No, I paused, kept going. Well, I’m scared of dying not of death, so I guess there is one thing. Explain. To me, when death comes it’ll be like the time before you were alive.

Communication

People reflect the light you shine on them

When I drove Uber, I’d play a game. How much can I learn about this person?Every 10-minutes (give or take depending on the destination) there’d be a new person sitting beside me and I’d take them to where they wanted to go. In that 10-minutes, I’

Stories

The girl with the C R E A T E tattoo

You’ve been here before haven’t you? Yes I have. Black this time. All black. Shoes, stockings or socks I can’t tell to the knees, black skirt above the knees, black sleeveless top. It sucks me in like a black hole. I tell her. I like your style.

Machine Learning

CS329s Machine Learning Deployment Tutorial

If you're smart enough to build machine learning models, you're smart enough to deploy them.

Art

Find your art and let it kill you

Been getting distracted. Trivial things getting in the way. String enough of those together and that's when people start to say "where did the time go?" I’ll tell you where it didn’t go, it didn’t go towards your craft. It didn’t go towards practicing. It didn’

Decision Making

The Buttons for the User Interface of Reality

Become an author of your reality by stacking your talents, affirming yourself, sparking curiosity, injecting novelty, painting contrast and keeping it simple simple simple.

Conversation

Your work is beautiful

I love receiving compliments on my work, my efforts, my creations, my actions. Last night after Jiu Jitsu training I took off my Gi top (think karate outfit) to cool down and stretch. I walked across the mats to get water. Coming back to the other side I heard John

Two kinds of followers

There’s the solider, the one who has to be there because they’re under an authority. And there’s the dancing partner, the one who wants to be there for no other reason but to join the dance. Of course, you can choose to be either. A solider can

Studying

“How do you deal with loneliness while studying?”

I stop studying. I go and talk to people. I get out in nature, I write, I read. I sit and do nothing. You’re never alone with the blank page. Whilst I write these lines I’m sitting on my balcony alone. Feeling the wind in my hair. Letting

Stories

Like Wonder with an S

I went on date with a girl studying to be a paramedic. She told me of a lesson she'd learned recently. Sometimes the patients we go to don't need an ambulance. When I first started, I wondered why they called. I mean, we could've gone to a patient who really

Learning

Curiosity is a skill

If anyone takes away your curiosity or eagerness for life, avoid them. Be as curious as you want about anything and everything. Curiousity is a skill which peaks in childhood and slowly dies off. But it doesn’t have to. Seeing curiosity as a skill means you can practice it.

Questions

How to appear smarter and more confident

Now I’ve got a rule: if I think something is a “dumb” question, I have to ask it.

Newsletter

Filtering out what matters

What do you have without your health? Five questions to ask yourself everyday. The optionality of life. Using time and boredom to guide your decisions.

Yearly

2021 — Questions, themes and ideas

Questions, themes & ideas I'm asking myself and pondering whilst getting used to writing the correct year down.

Learning

How to Create Your Own Data Science Curriculum with Coursera in 2021

2021 is here. Time to take control of your own education. Here's an example of how you can use Coursera and Notion to create your own data science curriculum.

Experiments

Apple's New M1 Chip is a Machine Learning Beast

Comparing a (nearly) top spec Intel-based 16-inch MacBook Pro to the new Apple silicon MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.

Interview

"How do you stop taking yourself so seriously?" | Interview on The Danny Miranda Podcast

"Basically I'm just trying to remind myself to have fun with whatever it is I'm doing."

Machine Learning

The 10 Commandments of Self-Taught Machine Learning Engineers

Principles for using math, code and data to seduce Mother Nature into revealing her secrets.

Writing

How to Write Yourself an iPhone 12

Advice on writing words worth being paid for

Health

I didn't eat food for 5 days, here's what happened

Notes, questions, answers and diary entries from my first five day fast (120-hours consuming water only).

You don't need permission

...to create, lead, build, start, think differently, ask, be, decide.