Pathless is a newsletter sent (most) weeks that offers Paulâs thoughts on our relationship with work, the history of work, self-employment, a criticism of culture PR, creativity, learning, reading and other fun topics.
He shares his writing, features reader stories and tries to go deeper than âwork-life balanceâ in trying to understand our current state of work.
Who am I?
I âretiredâ from the corporate world in 2017 after ten years of working in strategy consulting and succeeding at the default path. I didnât follow FIRE or anything like that. I just couldnât do it any longer. I had pretended to be someone I wasnât for too long.
My writing is focused on making sense of our weird relationship to work and how one might design a fulfilling life in the 21st century. I also write about creating online, carving an alternative life path, philosophy, business and strategy.
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đ Hey there! I'm Paul Millerd and I write Pathless each week. I typically sit down for a few hours on Friday or Saturday and share what Iâve been thinking and interesting things Iâve read as well as use this as a space to work out half-baked thoughts which may or may not go anywhere.
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Most People Are Here After Reading My Book, A Self-Published Book I Put Out That Has Been Read by 40k (and growing) readersâŠ
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
The book is also free for paid subscribers!
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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«Â StrategyUÂ 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.
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