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Paul Millerd
Personal blog · think-boundless.comcareerproductivityculture
Paul Millerd's personal blog at think-boundless.com covers career, productivity and culture. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The (real) dark side of strategy consulting and its effect on the business world”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for writing on rejecting the default career path, including a book, The Pathless Path, and for a post on who invented Maslow's pyramid. Comments only cite these posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writer, creator, and curious human. Exploring new stories for work & life.
Most-linked posts?
- The (real) dark side of strategy consulting and its effect on the business world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-01
What Hacker News says?
This quote reminds me of a book I just finished: "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/ It's about rejecting the default career path which our society considers normal and desirable. The default path is the one where you go to school, enter a career, work the career until you retire ... etc. I have been a lot of trouble lately figuring out why I'm so unhappy with my career…
Comment linking /the-pathless-path/
on “Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring””Submitted The Boomer Blockade: How One Generation Reshaped Work and Left Everyone Behind as a story · 48 points
HN discussionRelated blog: https://think-boundless.com/maslow-pyramid-inventor/ Related paper: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.5465/amle.2017.0351
Comment linking /maslow-pyramid-inventor/
on “Maslow never proposed a pyramid”Submitted Leaders: Time to Wake the F*ck Up as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted What can John Gray's “Black Mass” Tell us about the limits of utopian thinking? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted End Amazon Style Corporate Welfare: Can We Launch One-Year “Life MBAs” Instead? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (real) dark side of strategy consulting and its effect on the business world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Obsession with Work Killed Our Connection with Leisure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Magic of Non-Doing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hamsternomics: Printing Money and Our Willingness to Get Back on the “Wheel” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (Real) Dark Side of Management Consulting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Career Advice from Scott Adams, Debbie Millman, Hunter Thompson and More as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reinvention shouldn't have to be so scary as a story · 1 points
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