"I spent a lot of time at work just screwing around on the internet for most of my career," he says. "Nothing seems consequential in the moment, it didn't seem consequential that it was getting 100% positive feedback and 500,000 plus people saw it." He doesn't see himself as a writer or taking any of the path I've taken now. It's one 15, baby episode one 15 links below.
Paul Millerd is a writer.
In this conversation, we spoke about how his book has sold 12,000 copies in a year without him trying, why sabbaticals are the key, the problem with our wage-based society, and why Paul took the long, slow, stupid way but why it's paid off for him.
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The Pathless Path by: https://www.amazon.com/Pathless-Path-Imagining-Story-Work/dp/B09QF6Q421
Substack: https://boundless.substack.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_millerd
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