In 19 71, a woman couldn't get a credit card unless he got a note from her husband. I was looking at this 50 years ago, as we wouldn't have been able to get married in the state. Crazy. All of these old social models, which, rakly, i mean from our perspective om where we now, they sun. You think of martin luther king junior. They took great risks, but it actually worked. Now does that mean that all those frongs are gone? Of course not. But it means that we get to start fom a higher place and imtrove mor well.
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