Totaly: I don't want us to go back to the 19 sixties or seventies, because for every like bill bane or tom ders, there were ten other people that had no chance at all to express their creativity. The idea that this is only going to benefit one class or type of person, i think it is erroneous. It's always been a fun exercise for me to think about those things, because, you know, we're doing a series halled the great ye shuffle,. All these things that are a happin the same time and got compressed because of covid.
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.
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