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<h1>Daniel <span>Burka</span></h1>
<p class="intro">
Product manager and designer who focuses on solving complex global
health problems in simple ways.
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<p>
I'm the director of product and design at the not-for-profit
<a href="http://resolvetosavelives.org">Resolve to Save Lives</a>,
where I spend the majority of my time on the open source project,
<a href="http://simple.org">Simple</a>. Simple is used by thousands
of hospitals in India, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia to manage over 5
million patients with hypertension and diabetes.
</p>
<p>
On the side, I'm on the board of
<a href="https://www.laboratoria.la/en">Laboratoria</a>, a
not-for-profit based in Peru helping Latin American women build
successful careers in tech. In 2021, I started the open source
<a href="https://healthicons.org">Health icons</a> project to
provide free icons to healthcare projects around the world. I'm also
a member of Adobe's
<a href="https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/design-circle/">Design Circle</a
>, which grants scholarships to a diverse group of designers each
year.
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<h2 id="story">Story</h2>
<p class="story first">
<strong>1990s</strong> I grew up on Prince Edward Island in Canada.
My older brother Peter was a nerd and my mother was very supportive,
so I was privileged enough to have a computer around the house in my
teens and started hacking on projects. In school, I even won a prize
in a Remembrance Day website contest by
<a href="https://www.veterans.gc.ca/">Veterans Affairs Canada</a>
— my own legit copy of
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorelDRAW">Corel Draw</a>!
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>1996</strong> When I was 16, my twin brother Nicholas and I
started a web design agency called
<a href="http://www.whitelands.com">Whitelands Studio</a> with our
high school friends in order to make money in preparation for
university. We got paid to digitize the collections of local
museums, such as The Potato Museum in Tignish and the Fisheries
Museum in Basin Head, PEI.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>1999</strong> That company became
<a href="http://silverorange.com/">silverorange</a> in 1999. We
learned the ropes and worked on notable projects like the
<a href="https://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/branding-firefox"
>Firefox brand</a
>
and <a href="http://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> website. I'm
increasingly proud that silverorange is still going strong and
changing the world for the better, one project at a time — we
celebrated 20 years in business in 2019.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2005</strong> I was lured to Silicon Valley by
<a href="http://kevinrose.com">Kevin Rose</a> to be the creative
director of the news pioneer <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a>. For
five years, we broke ground in the way news was shared online. Kevin
and I also co-founded the social network
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce">Pownce</a> with Leah
Culver, which we sold to Six Apart.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2010</strong> I left at the zenith of Digg and Stewart
Butterfield brought me on as director of design on the game
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game)"
>Glitch</a
>. God bless Stewart and the team... I left after a year because I
wasn't satisfied in the game design world, and they went on to turn
Glitch into the rocket ship <a href="http://slack.com">Slack</a>.
Slack was a game? Yep, it doesn't make sense to anyone else either.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2011</strong> Kevin Rose and I then started an incubator
company called Milk, which we sold to
<a href="http://google.com">Google</a> a year later. I spent the
next five years as a design partner at
<a href="http://gv.com">Google Ventures</a>, where I got to work
with a huge variety of companies like
<a href="http://flatiron.com">Flatiron Health</a>,
<a href="http://flyzipline.com">Zipline</a>,
<a href="http://farmersbuisnessnetwork.com"
>Farmers Business Network</a
>, <a href="http://bluebottle.com">Blue Bottle Coffee</a>, and many
others. I also had the chance to contribute to the book
<a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/1442397683"
><em>Sprint</em></a
>
with my colleagues Jake, John, Braden, and Michael.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2016</strong> While visiting Lima, Peru, I met the founding
team of the not-for-profit
<a href="https://www.laboratoria.la/en">Laboratoria</a> in 2015 and
in 2016, I joined the board of directors — I served as a board
member for 6 years before my term ended in 2022.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2018</strong> I was introduced to former
<a href="http://cdc.gov">CDC</a> director Dr. Tom Frieden and soon
joined his team at
<a href="http://resolvetosavelives.org">Resolve to Save Lives</a> to
build a tech team to support large scale hypertension control
programs. We started the
<a href="https://simple.org">Simple</a> open-source project and
piloted it in Punjab, India in 2019. Simple quickly grew to an
international effort in thousands of hospitals and clinics.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2020</strong> Along with my ongoing work at
<a href="http://resolvetosavelives.org">Resolve to Save Lives</a>, I
volunteered with <a href="https://projectN95.org">Project N95</a> to
help get personal protective equipment (PPE) to healthcare workers
who needed it most, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2021</strong> On the side, I started the
<a href="https://healthicons.org">Health icons</a> project, where a
big group of wonderful volunteers has created hundreds of icons as a
public good for health projects anywhere in the world. I also joined
the board of <a href="https://loophealth.com">Loop Health</a>, a
fantastic India-based start-up in which I invested.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2024</strong> In late 2024, my partner
<a href="https://elycecole.com">Elyce Cole</a>,
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahima-chandak/"
>Mahima Chandak</a
>, and I started
<a href="https://hardproblems.com">Hard Problems</a>, a
not-for-profit with a goal to help more technologists to work on the
world's hardest problems, like climate change and public health. We
opened an office in London at the end of the year.
</p>
<p class="story">
<strong>2025</strong> Today, I spend almost all of my time at
<a href="http://resolvetosavelives.org">Resolve to Save Lives</a>
where I help to lead the
<a href="http://simple.org">Simple</a> project, which supports
large-scale public health programs in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
and Ethiopia. Simple is used by thousands of clinicians to
longitudinally manage 5+ million patients with hypertension and
diabetes. On the side, I help to run
<a href="https://hardproblems.com">Hard Problems</a>, a
not-for-profit in London. And I am also on the board of the
India-based health tech startup
<a href="https://loophealth.com">Loop Health</a>.
</p>
<h2 id="contact">Contact</h2>
<p>
My DMs on <a href="https://twitter.com/dburka">Twitter</a> are open.
I try to respond to as many emails as I can:
<a href="mailto:contact@danielburka.com">contact@danielburka.com</a>
</p>
<h2 id="links">Other places</h2>
<p>You can also find me on:</p>
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<li><a href="http://instagram.com/dburka">Instagram</a></li>
<li><a href="http://medium.com/@dburka">Medium</a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/dburka">Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dburka/">LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dribbble.com/dburka">Dribbble</a></li>
<li><a href="https://unsplash.com/@dburka">Unsplash</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/user/daniel-burka"
>Fast Company</a
>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="sites">Sites and apps I worked on</h2>
<ul style="column-count: 2">
<li><a href="https://healthicons.org/">Healthicons.org</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digg.com/">Digg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://elycecole.com/">Elyce Cole</a></li>
<li><a href="https://healthicons.org/">Health icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.projectn95.org/">Project N95</a></li>
<li><a href="https://simple.org/">Simple</a></li>
<li><a href="https://silverorange.com/">Silverorange</a></li>
<li><a href="https://solacasting.com/">Sola Casting</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://resolvetosavelives.org/"
>Resolve to Save Lives</a
>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.zerofasting.com/">Zero Fasting</a></li>
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<h3 id="essays">Things I wrote</h3>
<div class="reading">
<a href="https://informatics.bmj.com/content/30/1/e100641">
<img src="images/reading-slow.jpg" />
<strong
>Digital health tools are too slow and too hard to use</strong
>
<span
>An opinion piece in Johns Hopkins'
<em>Global Health Now</em> encouraging user-centered design in
healthcare.</span
>
</a>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a href="https://informatics.bmj.com/content/30/1/e100641">
<img src="images/reading-simple-brand.jpg" />
<strong>Case study: Keep it simple</strong>
<span
>British Medical Journal on designing user-centered digital
tools for chronic disease management.</span
>
</a>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a
href="https://medium.com/simple-dot-org/what-we-are-learning-by-creating-an-ultra-thin-emr-d178e6bbdbd4"
>
<img src="images/reading-emr.jpg" />
<strong>Lessons from an ultra-thin EMR</strong>
<span
>Lessons learned while creating Simple, a light medical record
for rapid clinical care.</span
>
</a>
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<div class="reading">
<a
href="https://library.gv.com/everyone-is-a-designer-get-over-it-501cc9a2f434?source=friends_link&sk=e4725d6d0e20da6e436920803e6ce214"
>
<img src="images/reading-everyone.jpg" />
<strong>Everyone is a designer, get over it</strong>
<span
>In reality everyone is designing your product. What does that
mean for you as a leader?</span
>
</a>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a
href="https://library.gv.com/a-designers-guide-to-parkinson-s-law-of-triviality-86484cb79526?source=friends_link&sk=04ee8b56d7b4cb466e88f0e4a78e2c65"
>
<img src="images/reading-parkinsons.jpg" />
<strong>A designer’s guide to “Bike Shedding”</strong>
<span
>What to do when your team is over-focusing on the side
details.</span
>
</a>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a
href="https://medium.com/google-design/the-best-design-books-that-arent-explicitly-about-design-74fc96ce115e?source=friends_link&sk=406a8a8231e8090c2299e75dc10a70c0"
>
<img src="images/reading-books.jpg" />
<strong>The best ‘Design’ books not about design</strong>
<span
>12 of the best non-design books that designers should look to
for insight and inspiration.</span
>
</a>
</div>
<h3 id="interview">Interview</h3>
<p>
My conversation with
<a href="https://www.highresolution.design/">High Resolution</a>
gives a good perspective on how I think about design.
</p>
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<h3 id="books">Books I love</h3>
<div class="reading">
<a
href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/"
>
<img src="images/reading-winners.jpg" />
<strong>Winners Take All</strong>
<span
>Anand Giridharadas' critique of philanthropy and
"market-friendly" do-gooding.</span
>
</a>
<div class="new">NEW</div>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn">
<img src="images/reading-buildings.jpg" />
<strong>How Buildings Learn</strong>
<span
>Stewart Brand's lovely book that examines buildings that adapt
over time.</span
>
</a>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities"
>
<img src="images/reading-cities.jpg" />
<strong>The Death & Life of Great American Cities</strong>
<span
>Jane Jacobs' seminal book on city planning that creates vibrant
communities.</span
>
</a>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a
href="https://www.patagonia.com/product/let-my-people-go-surfing-revised-paperback-book/BK067.html"
>
<img src="images/reading-surfing.jpg" />
<strong>Let my people go surfing</strong>
<span
>Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia explains how to lead with
compassion and vision.</span
>
</a>
</div>
<div class="reading">
<a href="http://www.creativityincbook.com/about/">
<img src="images/reading-creativity.jpg" />
<strong>Creativity Inc.</strong>
<span
>How Pixar cultivates critique and an environment of
creativity.</span
>
</a>
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