Hey there, I'm Paul!

Paul Millerd is an independent writer and creator who explores themes of ambition, meaning, and the tension between freedom and security in the modern working world. He is the author of The Pathless Path, a bestselling book translated into multiple languages that dares readers to reimagine success and dream bigger about the possibilities of a life beyond the traditional career track. He also published a second book, Good Work, in 2024 and continues to write and explore his curiosity through his newsletter, podcast, and conversations with fellow curious humans around the world.

Before being self-employed, Paul spent ten years working in strategy consulting, with experience leading organizational change and operations excellence research at McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group, among other firms. Paul has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Connecticut and an MBA and M.S. in Systems Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Paul Millerd is a former strategy consultant who gave up a perfectly good career of formatting PowerPoint slides in exchange for a life filled with mini existential crises. He now spends his time writing about not working too hard, recording podcasts with people who also quit their jobs, and convincing strangers on the internet to blow up their lives too. He's the author of The Pathless Path, a book that somehow sold a ton of copies despite a nonexistent launch effort. Paul was offered $70K from Penguin for The Pathless Path after it started to sell more copies, but turned it down because he was triggered by the corporate buzzwords used in their pitch. Instead, he kept self-publishing, continued pursuing projects that don't make money, and now runs his own indie publishing lab from random Airbnbs across Asia.

Before choosing the pathless path, Paul worked at firms like McKinsey and BCG, but now prefers long walks, slow mornings, and creative experiments that make absolutely no sense on a resume. He currently lives nomadically with his wife and daughter as they continue their mission to confuse everyone who still asks, "So... what do you do again?"