7PS: 99.9% you 🧬


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A brief public service announcement from science:

The person who cut you off in traffic shares about 99.9% of your DNA.

I remember the Dalai Lama once saying, "I could have been born as you. And you could have been born as me."

So the next time someone swerves into your lane, try thinking:

There goes 99.9% of me, driving badly.

The remaining fraction helps make each of us unique.

But almost everything underneath is shared.

With a different family, history, or set of circumstances, we might have been the other person...

Someone recently told me, "I want to be you when I grow up.”

I knew they were being kind.

But my first thought was:

You don't have to become me.

We're already basically the same person.​​

​​-Kabir
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​Seven Point Sunday - November 15​
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πŸ’Ό Portfolio Career

​Hedy Lamarr – Rose to fame as a Hollywood film star in the 1930s and 40s, becoming one of MGM’s most recognizable actresses. In parallel, she co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during World War II, a foundation for modern Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
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⚑️ Productivity

​Zight - Fast screen capture, annotated screenshots, and short videos designed to eliminate long explanations.
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πŸ’° Wealth

The Maintenance Cost Question. Before committing to any asset, investment, or opportunity, ask what ongoing attention it will require. Favor returns that grow while required effort quietly shrinks.
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πŸ“š Books

​The Overstory by Richard Powers. Interwoven narratives connected by trees, ecology, and long time horizons. The book forces decisions to be evaluated on decades instead of deadlines.
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🎡 Music

​Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues. Recorded in 1967 with the London Festival Orchestra, the album was structured as a single day unfolding from morning to night, with orchestral interludes linking rock songs. β€œNights in White Satin” was originally just one movement in the suite and only became a hit years later after DJs began playing it out of sequence.
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πŸ’­ AI Prompt

You are a music theorist from a parallel tradition where harmony evolved from rhythm, not pitch. Propose three compositional rules from that tradition, explain how they work, and show how I could apply each one to write a modern instrumental piece today.

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