Ivaylo Durmonski
I’m a voracious reader, librarian, and writer obsessed with helping people transition from passive online consumers to active mindful go-getters with a sense of purpose. Subscribe to my newsletter Farview and join over 4,500 readers.
Farview #030
Farview #030 Apr 23rd, 2025 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. The net is flooded with sloppy thinking and bad ethics. Who can you say is an exemplary person? A noble person? A person worth admiring not because he will sell you something, but because he will keep you motivated to be a good person yourself? The modern world has lowered the bar for what humanity as a whole can achieve. The Internet allowed us to...
Farview #029
Farview #029 Apr 2nd, 2025 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. If Vincent van Gogh were alive today, would he be posting reels or TikTok clips? And if he were, would he have become the Vincent van Gogh we all know - one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art? I don't think he would. If he were after social media fame, he'd probably be just another influencer trying to capture the attention...
Farview #028
Farview #028 Mar 19th, 2025 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. The entire library of Alexandria times 10 is at our fingertips at all times. The opportunity to learn anything you please has never been easier. But one crucial component is typically missing: the desire to learn. When we are born, we have a natural enthusiasm for learning. But as we age, we lose this striving. We give it up for other things. We focus...
Farview #027
Farview #027 Feb 26th, 2025 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. Do we really want financial independence, or are we after something else? There is a growing chatter around the topic of early retirement. Everyone wants to quit their 9-to-5 job and cease working. But say that you do have enough money to retire early, what will you do then? The goal of financial independence is to not worry about money. To not have...
Farview #026
Farview #026 Feb 5th, 2025 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. Everyone is jealous about what you've got. Nobody is jealous about how you've got it. If you catch yourself glancing enviously at someone else's journey - feeling low as you see others achieving what seems out of reach - pause and ask: What did it take them to get where they are? Sure, yes, you probably can't imagine every gritty detail of their path,...
Farview #025
Farview #025 Jan 15th, 2025 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. How many of you have started the new year with a list of things you want to change? Or a list of things you ought to get? What are you planning to buy/do/change? One thing? A hundred? What if you don't need to add new things to your already busy schedule, but simply keep doing the things you're already doing? That was my resolution after my notebook...
Farview #024
Farview #024 Dec 11th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. How about an exercise in not doing? What are you going to stop doing to start doing something else? Because there is a not so obvious cost involved in doing something new - it's not doing something current. We talk endlessly about bettering our lives. About unlocking our best version. And as you can imagine, this requires time. But in the age of...
Farview #023
Farview #023 Nov 27th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. We are bombarded by an endless stream of incentives to buy, to consume. Oh, you need to watch this 12-second clip of a cat dramatically flinging itself at a chair. It's sooo funny. Your soul will remain hollow until you witness Mr. Whiskers miss his target by an inch but still lands on his feet. Oh, what? You haven't yet binged The New Big Show That's...
Farview #022
Farview #022 Nov 13th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. At what point does piling up resources to read/watch becomes a problem? As modern people, it's common to proactively scroll through the online abyss for new sources of information. We imagine that the next groundbreaking idea is just a click away. Thus, we subscribe to more newsletters, more YouTube channels, bookmark more sites, and order more books....
Farview #021
Farview #021 Oct 23rd, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. We tend to imagine that in order to move to a better life, we need to have an appetite for relentless self-improvement. An undying drive for accomplishment. But based on my personal experience, I think that the ability to finally summon enough willpower to get up and start fixing the part of your life that sucks is none other than continuous struggle....
I’m a voracious reader, librarian, and writer obsessed with helping people transition from passive online consumers to active mindful go-getters with a sense of purpose. Subscribe to my newsletter Farview and join over 4,500 readers.