Ep.112 — Paul Millerd — The Pathless Path

After working at McKinsey and getting an MBA from MIT, Paul Millerd was succeeding well on a path that “made sense”. However, things started changing when he had a health crisis, which ended up with him embarking on a pathless path. Since 2017, he’s been tinkering with multiple side-hustles, writing newsletters, creating podcasts, traveling, and helping others join the pathless path.

- Paul’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_millerd
- Paul’s newsletter: https://boundless.substack.com/
- ‘The Pathless Path’ book: https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/

Show Notes:

- Having fun paying bills
- Jumping off your fitness landscape
- The first few years of being self-employed
- Connecting with the subconscious self
- Internet as an off-ramp
- How to stir up curiosity
- Lessons from DJing
- The social construct of retirement
- Internet economy requires showing up daily
- Design for liking your life
- Tinkering
- Embracing laziness
- Luxury of doing what you want
- The shift from cynicism to optimism
- Societal progress over the last decades
- What’s next for Paul?

Books Mentioned:

- The Pathless Path; by Paul Millerd
- The Body Keeps The Score; by Bessel van der Kolk