Paul Millerd Quotes

While ambition does not preclude aspiration, Callard argues that ambition "consumes much of an agent's efforts and does not expand his value horizons."⁠8

As we age we do become more mentally rigid and minor challenges to our routines can be landmines threatening to blow up our weeks, and suggestions that we live in new ways are treated as acts of war.

sharing what you actually think is one of the most powerful things you can do via text

so much content is a performance for the algorithm. and much of people complimenting on said content is really congratulating a performance

good writing transcends self & commons

Remember: nothing good gets away, as long as you create the space to let it emerge.

Publishers should give much larger advances to fewer writers. Especially those who already have shown a proclivity to hire teams and spend money to build an audience. The publisher through a large advance then is basically hiring highly skilled creators (at a discount if they had to hire them directly)

support longform

support friends who go deeper

promote stuff that dates to offer questions rather than answers

dont support hijacking the commons by the lowest common desire of success

On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. It's to actively and consciously search for the work that you want to keep doing. This is one of the most important secrets of the pathless path. With this approach, it doesn't make sense to chase any financial opportunity if you can't be sure that you will like the work. What does make sense is experimenting with different kinds of work, and once you find something worth doing, working backward to build a life around being able to keep doing it.

Life is not a linear game

the most interesting people keep on tinkering in similar ways with money

the burnout after getting rich is a sad modern phenomenon, more a symptom of selling life away too cheap

The best metric of happiness is actually just how easy it is to be happy for other people pursuing their dreams

This is what Harvard professor Dr. Ben‑Shahar calls the arrival fallacy, the idea that when we reach a certain milestone we will reach a state of lasting happiness.⁠5

My books are not for everyone

I don’t want to “impact 1 million people” or anything like that.

I let go of most grandiose stories in my 30s

They are a distraction anyway

I write for the weirdos. The people who must find a different way. And I write in a way that feels good.

Money only serves to buy freedom to do the thing or life you want

most decisions are not hard if you trust making decisions from consistent principles

by liking this post, you will start a butterfly effect that will traverse the cosmos and start a chain of events that will snap someone out of hustle-induced self-coercion, kickstarting them on a path to loving themselves without them knowing