Hey! Itâs me, Paul Millerd.
Pathless is my newsletter sent (most) weeks that offers my thoughts and reflections on my pathless journey, our modern relationship with work, the history of work, self-employment, riffs on remote work and organizational craziness, creativity, self-publishing, books, longreads, and really, whatever I feel like writing about.
Iâve been doing this since 2017 and if you search the archive you can find almost every issue Iâve written.
Ok Paul, who are you?
I âretiredâ from the corporate world in 2017 after ten years of working in strategy consulting. I wasnât close to being financially free or jumping toward some bold entrepreneurial path. I just couldnât do it any longer. I was performing a role that wasnât me and I needed to find a new way of showing up in my life.
My writing is inspired by my confusion upon becoming self-employed in mid-2017. Why did it feel so different than being employed? Why were others so worried about my âplans and goals? More importantly, Why did it feel so good despite my bank account shrinking?
Since those early days, I knew there was no looking back, and to make sense of the new reality I was creating, I wroteâŠ
Slowly, Iâve attracted people from all over the world. Somehow more than 23k people subscribe to this newsletter now. This is wild. I donât take this lightly.
Here are some reflections from people on Twitter before Mr. Elon got all weird about allowing people to cross-post links on different platforms.
For more than five years I wrote to a relatively modest audience. I met amazing people. Had hundreds of conversations.
Then I wrote a book, The Pathless Path, published in Jan 2022. It started selling slowly and then took off in 2023. Now, itâs sold more than 60k copies and is being translated into multiple languages.
The Pathless Path is a book about my journey shifting from getting ahead (achieve, achieve, achieve!) towards a path where I instead orient around âcoming alive.â
In September 2024, I released my second book, Good Work
I also run a community. We have 500+ âpathlessâ humans from around the world. To join, itâs a one-time âpay what feels rightâ fee.
The Pathless Path Membership
Join A Community Of Curious Humans Who Want More Than Life On The Default Path I wrote the Pathless Path after hundreds of conversations with people from around the world. What I found was that people were struggling to fit their lives into a default path that was no longer working. Many people were inventing new paths and new scripts for their lives butâŠ
Here are some other spaces and projects I am working on:
â My Personal Site is where I write and share deeper essays and explorations
đ« StrategyU is where I run Think Like A Strategy Consultant, a digital course teaching people strategy consulting âsecrets.â
đ Pathless Path Podcast is my podcast and can be found across all the platforms. E-mail me guest suggestions here.
đ€ One of my biggest goals is to make friends across the world. I interact with curious people and explore ideas on Twitter, sometimes share pictures on Instagram and try to awaken corporate America on LinkedIn.
