The worst fate in the modern world is to go a month without an income. People do all sorts of things to avoid having to go without an income and do all sorts of things to recreate an income when they don’t have one. I’ve started noticing that people feel more comfortable with steady flows ... Read more| Paul Millerd
The Ghost Map is a book about the 1854 London cholera outbreak. But it’s also about how hard it is to change our minds about ideas. A story about a pump, a man named John Snow, how disease theory changed, and how it set us to fail to react to covid. We now know cholera ... Read more| Paul Millerd
2024 was a year of liminality. Our last full year in Austin, not knowing where we’d go afterward or when we’d leave. A year of deepening into fatherhood, finding my creative groove again, and then losing it. A year of supporting Angie’s creative awakening and laying the foundation for what’s next. It was a year ... Read more The post The Long 2024: A Year of Change, Creativity, and Letting Go appeared first on Paul Millerd.| Paul Millerd
Reading William Whyte’s 1956 classic, “The Organization Man,” feels like uncovering the source code for much of modern white-collar life. Compiled from his writings in the 1940s and 50s, the book dissects an emerging phenomenon he termed the “social ethic” – a belief system prioritizing the group, belonging, and the benevolent organization over rugged individualism. ... Read more The post Book Review: “The Organization Man” – How the 1950s Shaped Our Work, Lives, and Aspirat...| Paul Millerd
Over the last eight years, I’ve directly experienced the US healthcare system from multiple angles. As a self-employed person, I’ve had health insurance in four different states (NY, MA, CT, TX), been uninsured for multiple years, interacted with healthcare systems in Mexico, Taiwan, Spain, and Portugal, and have had multiple acute health issues I’ve had ... Read more The post Hacking US Healthcare: A Guide to US Healthcare for Self-Employed People appeared first on Paul Millerd.| Paul Millerd
People often ask me, “Is your advice useful for most people?” and “If everyone followed your path, wouldn’t society fall apart?” I reject both of these frames. First off, I write, create, and share from my own perspective. I don’t write trying to give advice, to build a massive following, or in the hopes that ... Read more| Paul Millerd
Personal finance advice often feels like a maze of contradictions. Save everything. Live a little. Invest aggressively. Play it safe. After years of grappling with these mixed messages, I found clarity in Nick Maggiulli’s “Just Keep Buying.” Through its data-driven insights, I discovered a more nuanced – and ultimately more liberating – approach to building ... Read more| Paul Millerd
Someone said to me once, “there are things people, people people, and ideas people.” I instantly knew I was an ideas person. I love discovering new ideas, going down strange rabbit holes, trying to come up with better ideas for my life, talking about ideas, and finding others who are wired the same. The modern ... Read more| Paul Millerd
Alexander Technique Course Access The Pathless Path Community Good Work and The Pathless Path You can download it on Gumroad (select the option for both Good Work and Pathless Path) Reflecting Forwards Template Friendly Ambitious Nerds and Introspect The post Thanks for purchasing the Black Friday deal! appeared first on Paul Millerd.| Paul Millerd
I was at a gathering on Thursday and someone asked, “What do you do?” Given that I was in Austin, I thought I could share the real story: “writing online, podcasting, internet things, you know.” It was a creator’s hangout after all. “What do you write about?” he followed up. Ah nice, he’s interested. “I ... Read more The post How to answer “what do you do?” on a pathless path appeared first on Paul Millerd.| Paul Millerd
#1 It’s still far more rewarding than I ever could have expected For years I had a low-grade dissatisfaction with my work. At the simplest level, I just didn’t like having to go to work every day and I hated having to do tasks that seemed pointless. It now seems obvious I should have embarked ... Read more| Paul Millerd
A few people sent me Ali Abdaal’s most recent video and I thought it was one of the most interesting I’ve ever seen from someone in his position, with endless opportunities at his fingertips. It’s about his internal struggle between competing interests: money or life enjoyment. Spoiler: he’s actively embracing an approach with his business and life ... Read more| Paul Millerd
2023 was the year I became a dad and for the first time, pressure—tested this life that Angie and I have been building over the last several years. In terms of enabling me to be present and enjoy the beginning of the “magic years” of my daughter, it was a complete and unambiguous success. Financially, ... Read more| Paul Millerd
A sabbatical roundtable: personal experiences, mindset shifts, financial strategies, travel impacts, and transitioning back to work| Paul Millerd
Die With Zero is a persuasive argument for those who spend to much to turn money into time & experiences earlier in their lives| Paul Millerd
