Paul Millerd Quotes

i think over the last few years I got sucked into the creator world in ways that I couldn't really participate in healthy ways. I'm not wired for it.

I'll always be more of an indie blogger type at heart. Slightly disagreeable. Wanting friendly debate. I don't want to join engagement pods. I care about the words, the ideas.

The goal is not to be in the arena. It’s to be across the street playing in a field with your kid

Being good at posting on social media is not a good primary skill to aim at

You need to be doing longform well to find any sort of satisfaction. Or at least doing other things creatively.

Posting my ideas and writing them long form publicly has been so useful over the years

People make fun of you, people harass you, friends dislike what you say. You survive. You grow up. You become humble.

You get to practice absorbing all of this. It’s not a “this makes me stronger” sort of thing. I’m not going to pretend this is an arena like a hustle bro. That’s silly. But more like an experience of a wide range of human thoughts, behaviors, and preferences. Getting to sit here and see something so vast

Humans are so weird. There are so many ways to live life. There are infinite triggers. They are endless curious humans and kind souls. There are also many authoritarians and idealogues. It’s a beautiful mess.

authors are too friendly too each other

there should be more beefs, more critical reviews, more competition

i think it would raise the bar for everyone

i think the real ideal 2nd chapter of a career or work life is simply to be facilitating and enabling opportunities for others

theres no obvious on ramp to shift into this phase, you just sort of have to start doing it before it seems right

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

life is not a personal project on yourself

politics has become astrology for men

you have to be a bit mad to go against the grain in today's world

the pulls are so powerful

but i suspect its the only way to stay sane long term

hustle culture is the last exasperated breath of the industrial economy

embracing it is clinging to a fading past, one where you could lose yourself by turning yourself into a machine, well tuned to the industrial rhythyms

alas, a new paradigm is emerging

The best people are almost always not for hire

But sometimes they are. And you should pay them generously

You don’t really need to “keep up” if you are really sensing you are on a long journey

Most people quit creating. Even the current successful growth masters.

One weird thing I’ve noticed in people who don’t stop: they continuously go out of their way to help people behind them

You go harder

I take a nap

We are not the same

we need more stories of people that reject the default path and go do pottery in a mountain and volunteer at a local school

less I quit the default path and pursued fame and attention to become rich instead