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Paul Millerd
Personal blog · boundless.substack.comcareerphilosophy
Paul Millerd's personal blog at boundless.substack.com covers career and philosophy. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “How to (Not) Plan a Career – #149 – By Paul Millerd – Boundless by Paul Millerd”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Paul Millerd post in a thread on the 'Great Resignation', arguing that the wave of departures was mostly retirements by older workers. The comment itself says nothing about the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Unexpected takes on the modern world of work. Paul explores our obsession with work and the default path of success and tries to imagine new possibilities for how we can conceive of life, work & what matters. with tens of thousands of s
Most-linked posts?
- How to (Not) Plan a Career – #149 – By Paul Millerd – Boundless by Paul Millerd2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-30
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for all the feedback. If people are interested in following along, I'm sharing some selected feedback in my newsletter this week => http://boundless.substack.com
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on “The Boomer Blockade: How One Generation Reshaped Work and Left Everyone Behind”Submitted Maslow Didn't Invent the Pyramid, a Business Writer Did as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1543269998734372864.html https://boundless.substack.com/p/the-great-contemplation-not...
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on “Is There A “Great Resignation”? Basically its just boomers retiring”Submitted Is “antiwork” real or a manufactured narrative? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to (Not) Plan a Career – #149 – By Paul Millerd – Boundless by Paul Millerd as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inner Game of Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Long, Slow, Stupid, Fun Way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Career Page Crisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too Big to Think as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My own journey to unlearning hacking bad tests (re: Paul G's essay) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting Tim Ferriss' 4HWW as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summarized Research Findings from Microsoft WFH (December 2019 – July 2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to (Not) Plan a Career as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Money, Guilt, Shame and What Matters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full-Time Work Games: What Game Are You Playing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitters Free Strategy Move as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Newsletter on the State of Work During Covid – UBI, Buybacks and Work Beliefs as a story · 1 points
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