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Carl Jung: Beware of your shadow self

4 weeks ago | postanly.substack.com | Paul Millerd |Matt Haig |Thomas Oppong

Postanly Weekly is a reader-supported smarter living newsletter. To support my work, you can upgrade to a paid subscription for $7 per month or $40 for a year. With a modest contribution, you’re not only helping keep Postanly Weekly going, you also get free instant access access to Thinking Toolbox (mental models for life) and Mental Wealth Toolbox (practical concepts for smarter decisions). NEW: The little book of stoic wisdom(for free or pay what you want).
Laptop Man & The New Hybrid Remote Work Reality

Oct 27, 2024 | pmillerd.medium.com | Paul Millerd

No, we are not “going back” to the officePaul Millerd·Follow13 min read·--Based on this chart from Kastle (a badging company) that I’ve been following for the past few years, occupancy rates plateaued between 40–60% depending on the city for at least 2+ years.1This overall number, however, only tells us the average occupancy. It doesn’t tell us about the different percentages of companies employing which specific strategies. But the company does break it down by day.
Why You Should Write A Book, Now | #270

Jun 29, 2024 | newsletter.pathlesspath.com | Paul Millerd |Nat Eliason

June 29th, 2024: Greetings from Austin! We are headed to Colorado for a couple of months for hikes and cooler weather. Expect somewhat sporadic posts this summer but I’ll likely start sharing more details about my upcoming book soon, in addition to a few guest posts I have scheduled. Home Swapping: We’ll likely be using Kindred a bit this summer. It’s a pretty cool home-swapping alternative to Airbnb. If you want to join, use my signup code.
The 5 Stages of a Personal Project

Mar 3, 2024 | davidnebinski.substack.com | David Nebinski |Paul Millerd

Personal projects are magical. They are often a low-cost, and powerful way for you to make an impact, build a portfolio of work, and help you find your people. My personal project, my podcast, has changed my life. It didn’t happen all at once though. So here are the 5 stages of a personal project and my related journey! Reply back and let me know about your current or next personal project too!I kind of stumbled into podcasting in 2018. I didn’t really know what I was getting into then.
Embracing transformation: Hitting reset on a puzzling identity crisis

Jun 26, 2023 | planyournext.substack.com | Nate Kadlac |Tom Critchlow |Steven Wilkinson |Paul Millerd

đ Good morning from Los Angeles! I'mÂ Nate Kadlac, and this is #140 of Plan Your Next. A Sunday newsletter that connects design, creativity, and how you prepare for your next thing. đ§ Publicly kicking the fresh rubber of Fresh Prompts, an AI-driven daily drawing prompt generator. Text prompts for now, visuals to come soon. Sign up for the waitlist if youâre curious. đ¤ and I are building a Figma course for knowledge workers in public.
How to take your Google Docs from, "OMG, I'm going blind!" to a Zen like experience

Jun 26, 2023 | planyournext.substack.com | Nate Kadlac |Tom Critchlow |Paul Millerd

đ Good morning from Los Angeles! I'mÂ Nate Kadlac, and this is #141 of Plan Your Next. A Sunday newsletter that connects design, creativity, and how you prepare for your next thing. đ¤ Building Figmathinkers.com: Thanks to everyone who showed up to our live event this past week as and I build out our course in public. Join us here this week, or check out the live Figma file as we design. A simple book is the perfect example of great design.
Audacious Goals Scare Me | #227

Jun 17, 2023 | boundless.substack.com | Paul Millerd

June 17th, 2023: Greetings from Austin. It’s toasty here, hitting 100 most of this past week, but I haven’t found it too bad. It feels pretty similar to Taipei summers. + I joined Khe Hy on his newly launched “Rad Friends” podcast and talked about our relationship with work for an hour. It was a pretty personal conversation for both of us. You can check it out here. In my jobs, managers told me I needed to “self-promote” more if I wanted to get promoted.
Go Wander (Abroad, Ideally)

Jun 1, 2023 | pmillerd.medium.com | Paul Millerd

By Paul Millerd The case for living abroad and detaching from your default scripts Six years ago this week, I took the 7 train from midtown Manhattan one stop to my apartment in Long Island City. It was the final commute home from the office. I haven't done anything like that in 2,190 days since.
Khe Hy Has Been Doing It His Way For 8 Years

May 10, 2023 | boundless.substack.com | Paul Millerd

I wanted to do a little write-up of the episode I published this week on my podcast with Khe Hy.Khe has been a model for me on my path. I stumbled upon his existence at a conference in 2017. He was involved with Quartz, where he interviewed someone (I don’t remember who) on stage in front of the attendees. I became curious about how this guy got in that role and it led me down a rabbit hole of discovering his website RadReads and newsletter of the same name.
The Pathless Path

Apr 28, 2023 | publishersmarketplace.com | Paul Millerd

The Pathless Path has sold 20k copies since being published in January 2022 with increasing sales in the 2nd year, including 10k+ in the last 100 days. This Pathless Path is a personal memoir meets deep dive into the past, present and future of work.