How to Thrive on a Creative Path Without Losing Your Soul
For writers, creators and artists.
How to self-fund the work that matters, say no and play the long game, avoid mimetic contagion, and find your own unique, weird path.
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Paul Millerd is the author of The Pathless Path and Good Work. A former strategy consultant who walked away from a “guaranteed” career to write about work, he gives talks on ambition, money, creative work and freedom, and gets rooms laughing about them.
70,000+ followers on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Threads
27,000+ newsletter subscribers Talks
Keynotes, fireside conversations and workshops for teams.
We Are All Pathless: Work Without Career Ladders
For companies, people leaders, HR teams and universities.
Paul’s belief is that everyone is already “pathless.” He helps people see the hidden scripts that stifle our imagination, and what it might look like to approach a career with a pathless mindset.
The Quest for Good Work: Why We Must Reclaim Our Ambition
A keynote for conferences, companies and universities.
Modern culture tells us that good work must come with a paycheck and success means money, fame, and status. What if the “good work” worth doing doesn’t come with a paycheck (at least at first), but enables us to reawaken the fires that once drove us early in our lives and careers?
Take the Leap: The Costs of the Default Path
For mid-career people weighing a sabbatical or a leap.
On quitting when it doesn’t make sense, radically cutting spending, reinvention, embracing low-status moves, prototyping leaps, and practicing leisure and wonder.
On stage
About Paul
Paul spent ten years working in strategy consulting, at McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group among other firms. He has an MBA and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from MIT, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Connecticut.
He quit his job in 2017 without any income lined up, moved to Taiwan, and has written about the experiment in public ever since. He has written a newsletter since 2017, self-published The Pathless Path in 2022 and Good Work in 2024, and turned down a $200,000 two-book deal from Portfolio (Penguin).
Heard on Modern Wisdom, Lenny's Podcast, Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, The One You Feed, How I Write and Deviate with Rolf Potts. Written about in The Atlantic and Business Insider.
“This book has had an enormous impact on my life and on the lives of a lot of people I know.”
Ali Abdaal, author of Feel-Good Productivity
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