Hi, I'm Paul Millerd and I help creative rebels carve their own path

October 26, 2020 Aspiration, Meaning, & The Traps of Ambition (A Book Review of Agnes Callard’s Aspiration)

To others, I made a bold decision to quit my job and chart a different...

October 13, 2020 Hustle Traps: Ten Guaranteed Paths To Burnout For The Self-Employed Creator

Starting your own business is a secret dream of many and with the emergence of...

August 29, 2020 Spaceship You: How To Understand Who You Are as a Remote Worker

The following is a guest post from Artur Piszek, founder of Deliberate Internet. He has...

July 19, 2020 The best advice on working remotely your boss doesn’t want you to see

During the initial months of the Covid crisis you were bombarded with tips about how...

May 28, 2020 Managing Millennials & Other Misinformation On Generations at Work

Over the past few years, many people have asked me what I though about ““how...

May 25, 2020 Integrating Chaos: Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory

Our imagination about what happens in the business world has become disconnected with reality and...

May 23, 2020 Questions About The Future Of Work

The US has lost 38 million jobs as of May 23rd, 2020. Some of those...

May 19, 2020 Matt Mullenweg’s & Automattic’s Five Levels Of Remote Work

Remote work is poorly understood and for good reason. What most people have experienced is...

May 7, 2020 Reinvent: From getting ahead to coming alive in May

Greetings friends! I’ve decided to run a small experiment, opening up Reinvent for a short...

May 4, 2020 Hamsternomics: Printing Money, The Economy & Work Beliefs

Essay by Paul Millerd & Ryan Borker Look at this cute little guy: Right now,...

April 19, 2020 Millenarianism & Preferred Pandemic Utopias

Millenarianism is is defined as “the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement...

April 8, 2020 Dear Leaders, It’s Time To Wake The F*ck Up

When I was working in consulting there was an unspoken truth. To say it would...

March 27, 2020 Rethinking Meetings In A Remote World

In a short podcast episode, Seth Godin makes the argument against using remote work to copy in-person...

March 18, 2020 Virtual Spaces: How To Teach & Engage With Virtual Communities

I’ve been self-employed for three years and after landing remote gigs in my first couple...

March 18, 2020 Laurel Farrer on The Global WFH Experiment & The Long-Term Promise Of Remote Work

Laurel and I decided to jump on a video call to talk about the world...

March 15, 2020 Work From Home

“Ah, right” Pete had forgotten. It took him 34 years to get to his current...

March 12, 2020 The Reality of The New Economy: Go Tech, Go Solo Or You’re SOL

A year before I applied to grad school, the name of the program I was...

March 4, 2020 Going Remote? Here are five tips from companies who are already fully remote

I’ve worked remotely on global teams for most of my career. At first this was...

January 31, 2020 The (Real) Dark Side Of Management Consulting

The secrecy of the industry make it a prime target for attacks, but the real...

January 24, 2020 The Boomer Blockade: How One Generation Reshaped the Workforce and Left Everyone Behind

The baby boom led to the largest shift in the demographics of the modern workforce....

The future of work is forcing us to reimagine the way we live, work and think about success

Featured Essays

Matt Mullenweg’s & Automattic’s Five Levels Of Remote Work

My other online business: teaching people strategy consulting skills