authors will search for every marketing tactic in the book in order to sell a book instead of actually just writing a banger - Paul Millerd

Most of the good life advice is antimemetic. If it somehow has become viral the person dispensing it has spent 10+ years on a spiritual journey and now communicates poetically

A lot of viral “advice” is really just tactics good for a year or two

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.

You can make more money teaching people how to make money than actually making money

Imagine if we paid teachers in schools like this