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Read time: 1 minute, 358 words. A composer friend of mine was offered a well-paid film scoring job he didn't love. He declined the offer. Seven Point Sunday - March 8 โMaria Popova. Writer, curator, and cultural critic who built a career spanning literature, philosophy, science, and art. Best known for creating The Marginalian, she turned long-form intellectual curiosity into a sustainable independent practice without institutional backing. โก๏ธ Productivity โMatter. Reading and highlighting app designed for long-form thinking rather than speed. Useful if you read essays, PDFs, and research and want to return to ideas later without turning everything into tasks. ๐ฐ Wealth โMorningstar Portfolio X-Ray. See what your investments actually hold underneath the surface. Helpful for spotting hidden concentration, overlap, or unintended risk across accounts. ๐ Books โSmart Brevity by Jim VandeHei et al. Practical guide to communicating with clarity and speed without losing substance. Useful for writing emails, proposals, and updates that people actually read. โ โAnother Green World by Brian Eno. Recorded in 1975 with a small group of rotating musicians, the album alternates between structured songs and ambient instrumentals. Eno treated the studio as a compositional tool, using chance operations and texture to blur the line between pop music and soundscape, influencing ambient, post-punk, and electronic music for decades. ๐ญ AI Prompt Describe a version of my week that looks productive on paper but leaves me exhausted. Explain what I am optimizing for, what I am ignoring, and why I keep repeating it. ๐ฅฃ Gravy โ7 uncomfortable truths about leading high-performersโ โGreat art needs distributionโ โThe world forgot about liner notesโ โ
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Seven Point Sunday๐กby Kabir Sehgal
I help you build your portfolio career. Get 7 actionable ideas on Sundays. From a Multi-Grammy & Multi-Emmy Winner, New York Times bestselling author (21 books), ex-J.P. Morgan banker, Navy Vet. Join 10k readers.
Read time: 1 minute, 307 words. When Quincy Jones heard the final mix of "Billie Jean," he had one concern. The intro was too long. Radio programmers were already complaining that listeners would change stations before the vocals came in. Quincy pushed Michael Jackson to shorten it. Michael refused. He told Quincy,"That's the part that makes people want to dance." Quincy let it go. The intro stayed. It became one of the most recognizable openings in music history. Sometimes the producerโs job...
Read time: 1 minute, 370 words. In 2017, I traveled to Selma with Congressman John Lewis. Over breakfast at the hotel, I asked if I could record him reading a speech. I had a vague idea then. Maybe an album about Selma. Nothing concrete. We found an empty ballroom. I stacked chairs around him to dampen the sound and block the noise from the kitchen. He read. The recording sat on my voice recorder for years. In 2020, I helped him write his final memoir. Yesterday was the late congressman's...
Read time: 1 minute, 367 words. A man is brought into the emergency room after an accident. He is bleeding badly. A doctor rushes over and prepares to treat him. Before the doctor can begin, the man interrupts. "Wait," he says."How did this happen exactly?Who was responsible?Could this have been prevented?What kind of mistake led to this?" The doctor tries to stop the bleeding, but the man keeps talking.He wants answers.He wants certainty. By the time the questions end, it is too late. I...