Every day I learn something new. I share it weekly, just so I don't forget.

  • When someone tells you don't fall in love with your first idea, this assumes it's OK to fall in love with your 2nd one. Which is not true, I find. My advise is don't fall in love with your 2nd idea either and keep asking why.
  • What you learn while you develop your first, 2nd, 3rd, etc idea is absolutely priceless and will very likely help you for your 4th idea.
  • If you're reluctant to put your own money in your big idea, it's probably not your big idea. Keep searching.
  • Working as a freelance business consultant can be OK for me if 1) my client has a team I can work with and 2) I enjoy working with this team, i.e learn something from them and we share a common vision. If 1 or 2 are not present, there's no one to challenge my own ideas and assumptions. And this sucks.
  • Everything is a matter of viewpoint and mindset. If you see things as really bad, they probably will turn out pretty bad. For example - my brother is at the psychiatry for the 4th time in the last ~3 years and I felt pretty doomed and helpless when that happened. But it's not indeed that bad - he's willing to take his medicine and he's now aware he has a problem. This was not always the case. So see, it actually was worse before. We now have an improvement. I choose to see the improvement part, not the part that he's at the hospital again. Things are just as good or bad as you see them.
  • I don't know how to be empathetic to people who have a problem, are educated about the possible solutions, but don't do anything about solving it. 😕
  • Dessert is a bitch. It tempts you to eat it right after you main meal, but if you resist that temptation for not more than 5 minutes, you're most of the time totally OK without it.
  • Shoo. I really didn't know that word before. Thanks, K for teaching me to shoo my thoughts before going to sleep.
  • Saying "no" is fucking hard. I had a good opportunity that would let me learn quite some new things but otherwise keep me in the good old circle. I want to move on and make room for new things. The only way to do it is to say no. I said no. I am pretty proud. 💪🏻
  • Something seemingly as simple as "I just call to say that I am there for you" means everything. Sometimes people don't have to even say it. You feel it. I am thankful for having people like this around me. I am thankful for being able to wholeheartedly say this to people around me.
  • You have to bring a hard copy of your recent headshot to a physical Sofia Urban Mobility Center office in order to issue a subway subscription card. The last time I kept a hard copy of my headshot was 7 years ago. My country is quite far from digital.
  • Sometimes people call me for advise. I tell them my opinion, then they do the exact opposite thing, or simply not follow through. You see they'll fail. And at one point, they do. Then we talk and they say: you were right, I learned my lesson. And they tell you what they learned. And you realize it's the wrong lesson. And then you realize that there are no right and wrong lessons. It's just that people learn in a different way, at a different pace.
  • Bansko is the Bulgarian Las Vegas, as learned in the otherwise amazing and inspiring movie In Gora, produced by sustainable snowboarding brand Picture. I haven't visited Bansko for at least 6 years and I think I've made a good choice.