Paul Millerd Quotes

American independent writer

Paul Millerd is an independent writer, freelancer, coach, and digital creator. He has written online for many years and has built a growing audience of curious humans from around the world. He spent several years working in strategy consulting before deciding to walk away and embrace a pathless path. He is fascinated about how our relationship to work is shifting and how more people can live lives where they can thrive

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Most tit for tat sharing has bad assumptions about how ideas spread I think. It’s an outdated top down view of the world.

When I find something cool I share it hundreds of times. I think it’s more valuable to find these people even if they don’t have an audience

Receiving a gift well is just as hard not harder than giving mostly because you are not just getting something. You are being asked to participate in a bigger trust dance of life

more "heres how to write a more interesting story"
less "heres another way to monetize writing"

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)

Before you quit your job, money is the resource you want to conserve.

After, it’s time

Success in business has more to do with interest in business and finance more than almost every other factor

Now a successful life? That’s got many paths

Every time you see someone talking about grinding just replace it with suppressing joy.

Working long hours is often easier for people than feeling something you don’t want to feel.

You don’t need to be afraid of
Being mediocre
Not living out your potential
Not hitting MRR goals

You should be afraid of going down someone’s course funnel too far toward the high ticket upsell

Just move toward the life you want and stop focusing on money as the problem to be solved

once you are on the pathless path, defining your own constraints and fixed points is not a choice, it’s essential to thriving on your journey.

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

To go further you must eventually go slower

getting lost was simply the understanding that "the world has become larger than your knowledge of it."

optimizing for engagement metrics is a great way to hide