Decision Making - Daniel Bourke

Shedding old skin

A snake slithers out of its old skin without effort. A caterpillar decides it’s time to become a butterfly, encases itself in a cocoon, rests, and emerges with colourful wings. All of nature happens this way. No effort. Like air entering and leaving your lungs, happening by itself. Want

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.

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.

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.

Projects

42 days: a cure for shiny object syndrome

If you had the next 6 weeks to work on whatever you wanted, what would you make?

Decision Making

Trust one eye more than two ears

99% of your thought process is dedicated to maintaining your self-conceptions but 98% of them are wrong. This usually trips most people up. Because the lengths people will go to save face are extraordinary. You’re probably not as scared of failing as you think. You’re more scared of

Decision Making

Cook or chemist?

A chemist needs things to be exact. Their tools measure down to the smallest unit. It’s in a chemist’s best interest to stick to the recipe. If something is off by even a little, it’s over. A cook does the opposite. They work off feel. Once they’

Decision Making

If you’re in doubt about something, get rid of it

Life improves by subtraction.

Decision Making

Precision or applicability?

Which one are you going for? Are you trying to be perfect? Trying to be right all the time? Or are you trying to be useful? I’ll say it until I go hoarse, it saddens me to think how many opportunities I’ve missed because I was waiting for

Life and Living

What if you did the exact opposite? (like the rogue bees do)

Bees have a dance to indicate to others where food is. It’s called the waggle dance. Great name. But a significant portion of bees in a hive completely ignore the waggle dance and venture off on their own accord. Scientists studied this and were perplexed as to why. It

Thinking

Thinking for yourself

A decade ago I was scared. It was the last year of high-school and teachers were asking “what do you want to do in your life?”. “Lady, I’ve got no idea, I wake up, get dressed, come to school, listen, try to pass the exams, think about playing computer

Marketing

Does this plane have Wi-Fi?

It’s easy to get caught up in things which seem important on the surface. But dig a little deeper and you'll find out, they take up almost 0% of the average users brain. Imagine a conversation in a major airline executive meeting where the contest is between buying their

Life and Living

Have you got scars?

Life is all about risk taking. All about the outliers. All about having skin in the game. People relate to other people having scars. Superman requires Clark Kent to make him relatable. If he continued being invincible, no one would be able to relate. That’s what you need to

Thinking

Avoid being a donkey (but also be a donkey)

There’s a story I’ve heard a few times and each time I read or hear it, I think, I should remember this. It begins with a donkey who’s hungry and thirsty. To its left is a bucket of water and to its right is a pile of