The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

Paul Millerd

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The Pathless Path is hosted by Paul Millerd - a writer, creator, and consultant. He has conversations with freelancers, self-employed entrepreneurs, creators, and vagabonds who share their perspectives on their relationship with work, burnout, bootstrapping, indie hacking, remote work, reinvention, creativity, sabbaticals, leisure, self-employment, unconventional living, and digital nomadism. Past guests include Ali Abdaal, Russ Roberts, Kevin Kelly, Khe Hy, David Senra, Derek Sivers, Joe Hudson, Luke Burgis, Ben Hunt, Dan Vassallo, Steph Smith, Alex Pang, Visakan Veerasamy, Michael Ashcroft, Kyla Scalon, Trung Phan, Justin Welch, and more.

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Matt Yao Interviews Me
DEC 5, 2024
Matt Yao Interviews Me

This was a fun episode. A friend, Matt Yao, reached out to see if he could interview me about my recent book, Good Work.

We first connected when he called me in the summer of 2022. He was in the middle of my book and knew he needed to quit his job.

Over the last few years, he's been on a transformational journey, experimenting with writing, coaching, and several other side quests.

Hope you enjoy this conversation.

You can learn more about Matt here: Matt Yao


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51 MIN
Building A Life Around Good Work (Paul Interviewed by Abel James)
NOV 5, 2024
Building A Life Around Good Work (Paul Interviewed by Abel James)

You can follow Abel's podcast here: Abel James Show


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95 MIN
#174 Agency Is A Skill ā€” Cate Hall on leaving law for poker, developing agency, deterministic vs probabilistic economy, risk, burnout, asking dumb questions, defining ambition, seeking real feedback, and the surface area of luck
MAY 29, 2024
#174 Agency Is A Skill ā€” Cate Hall on leaving law for poker, developing agency, deterministic vs probabilistic economy, risk, burnout, asking dumb questions, defining ambition, seeking real feedback, and the surface area of luck

Cate seemed to be fully entrenched on the default path ā€” she had graduated from Yale and became the Supreme Court advocate on her way to becoming a partner in her law firm. But she didn't want to live the lives of the people around her. She pivoted hard, you could almost hear car brakes squeaking as she made the turn, and over a year she became the number one female poker player in the world. She later started art and perfume companies and led operations at Avlea ā€” a pandemic medicine company. One might think she's simply a superhuman, and what she did is beyond the grasp of mere mortals, but Cate claims that agency is learnable and joins the podcast to tell us how.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (02:07) - The scripts that Cate grew up with
  • (06:32) - Doors-opening credentials?
  • (10:23) - Leaving law for poker
  • (18:37) - Developing agency, learning form the others
  • (23:42) - Deterministic vs probabilistic economy
  • (26:53) - Risk and the diminishing prestige of the traditional paths
  • (31:10) - Burnout
  • (37:20) - Asking dumb questions
  • (41:59) - Defining ambition
  • (43:39) - Seeking actual feedback and how everything is learnable
  • (50:11) - The surface area of luck
  • (57:45) - Closing remarks


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62 MIN