Creating

A collection of 49 posts

Life and Living

I've never been so excited

Imagine growing up watching a television show and then getting to meet your favourite character. You get there and they realise how excited you are. They know what you're thinking. They say, "you've been waiting for this haven't you?". You say, "

Creating

What if you couldn’t see the metrics?

When the like button arrived, things changed. When view counts were made visible to everyone, things changed. Changed? Now everyone had something to compare their work to. If you created a post and it had less likes than another, it wasn’t as good. When you search for a video,

Art

You can use your day to day as fuel for your art

Stuck? Write a story about what happened today. Working a job which doesn’t set you on fire? Remind yourself, it helps to pay for food, it gives you funds to work on your craft. Art and opportunities to create are all around. All it takes is looking at things

Art

No Eggs On Toast

If you’re ever in Melbourne (or Paris), you should visit Hardware Societe [https://hardwaresociete.com/]. I found them because of a book I picked up in a cafe at the markets. The book was pink with big green letters across the front spelling out NO EGGS ON TOAST. As

Life and Living

When will you be ready?

When you think of starting something new, sharing your work, putting your art out there, it can be tempting to wait. Wait until you know more. Wait until you're not a student anymore. Wait until your work is better than the rest (who decides this?/who are you

Art

Attention to detail

Dad and I went to the barber today. The local one down the road. I always get Alex. He's from Colombia. Loves baseball, loves his little girl. She's 7-months old now. Time flies. I was watching him while waiting. The start of each cut was rough.

Life and Living

How to deal with imposter syndrome

The first time I walked into an artificial intelligence meetup, I felt like I shouldn’t have been there. The second time I walked into a machine learning event, I felt like I shouldn’t have been there. The 20th time I walked into an artificial intelligence meetup, I felt

Creating

Is it beautiful?

That’s question one. The next:  Is it functional? Whenever you make something, keep these in mind. Why beauty first? Because beauty is a function. If something is beautiful, it doesn’t have to be anything else. It’s how we are. We’re attracted to things which look beautiful.

Creating

Create like a toddler

My friend was over with his son the other day. My friend has been to my place plenty of times, his son too, but it’s only now he’s starting to explore the world on his own. He grabbed the markers from my white board and was popping the

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

White belt mentality

I’ve been doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) for the past year. I’m addicted. I should’ve signed up to a martial art earlier. Aside from the life lessons [https://dbourke.link/bjj1year] like learning how to lose, how to stay calm under pressure, how to defend yourself, one of

Creating

What can I create today?

If there isn't a YouTube video on something, it doesn't exist. And if you can't find what you're looking for on the first page of Google, you'll probably stop looking and find something else. You could easily spend a whole

Creating

Starting is the easy part

The professional knows starting is the easy part. They know this because finishing is harder. The amateur starts a list of projects and finishes none. The professional starts a list of projects and finishes a handful. Starting is exciting. Everything is new. Starting is saying yes to something. Yes feels

Creating

Own your projects

Instead of trying to grow at all costs. Instead of trying to build the next biggest thing. Instead of trying to change the world from the beginning. Start with something small. Something sustainable. Water it. Let it grow on its own. If you can figure out how to do something

Creating

Put yourself in their shoes

What do they think? What have they done before? Why are they showing up to see what you’ve made? What don’t they know? What should they know? How do you want them to feel? Do you want to give them the answer? Or should they work it out

Productivity

How I became a productivity machine

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to spend my time. You might be the same. I’ve tried every system you can imagine. Some worked, some didn’t. It’s no surprise the one I keep coming back to is simple. My two guiding principles are less

Writing

How I became a better writer

I practice creativity every day. Like I work my muscles through different movements, I need to work my creativity by making things. This morning it's writing. Every day it's writing. A writer doesn't need much. A blank page and a tool to write with.

Creating

Use what works

Focus on the content more than the medium. What's the story you're trying to tell? Tell it. I asked Sam, does having a more expensive gi (the karate outfit) make you better at Jiu Jitsu? No. Does having a more expensive camera make your videos better?

Creating

No explanations

That’s rule number 1. When you want to learn something new, when you want to create something new, you’ll hold yourself back. Why? Because that’s what you’re searching for. A reason why. A reason you can give to someone about why you’re doing what you’

Creating

No one will be as interested as you

The thing you want to work on. Your health. Your side project. The book you’re writing. The movie you’re making. The girl you’re interested in. The boy you’ve got a crush on. The dreams you have. The country you want to travel to. You know the

Creating

The creative habit

Treat creativity as a habit. If you want to be more creative, practice being more creative. I wanted to get better at writing, so I started writing every day. I wanted to get better at making videos, so I started making videos every week. Creativity isn't only for

Business

I earned $10,363.60 online last month, here's how

I left my job two months ago. Since then, I've tripled my salary.

Writing

Being Your Own Biggest Critique is Easy, Try Being Your Own Biggest Fan

6 ways to poison distraction and start writing.

Life Lessons

Don’t break the chain

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You’re walking along a beach. You find a book. The pages are a bit damp but it’s legible. You read the title. 2043. Only four numbers? You flip it open. A few sentences in you start to realise this isn’t a once upon a time book.

Creating

Approach Your Art Like a Professional Golfer

How often do you see someone get a hole in one? Professional golfers only land 1 in 2500 holes on the first shot. For an amateur, it’s more like 1 in 12500. You should treat your artworks the same. It will rarely be a hit on the first try.