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7PS: Creative work starts in the margins 🖼️
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Read time: 1 minute, 375 words. Creative work rarely starts full-time. It starts in the margins. Anthony Trollope was a Post Office civil servant who rose early to write before work, measuring his output in 15-minute blocks. Walker Evans took night jobs so he could photograph during the day, then worked for the government documenting Depression-era America. Raymond Chandler spent years as an oil-company executive before losing his job at 44 and turning seriously to detective fiction. Three different paths, one useful idea: Creative careers often build quietly, alongside something else. Sometimes that’s how depth is built. -Kabir Seven Point Sunday - September 13 ⚡️ Productivity Krisp - AI-powered solution removes background noise and echo from meetings, leaving only human voice. 💰 Wealth The Attention-to-Capital Rule. Wealth should demand less of you over time, not more. Early on, money often requires attention to grow. As soon as it works, the job is to move profits into assets that run quietly. If your net worth increases but the mental load increases with it, you're not compounding wealth, you're compounding obligation. Durable wealth is boring by design. Read Help Me, I'm Stuck by Vaughn Carter. While it may seem so, it's not the circumstances around you that control the outcome, but the power of your thoughts and how you look at things. Ave de Luz: Chilean Jazz & Soul by Claudia Acuña. More than three decades after moving from Chile to New York, she puts the music of her home country at the center of this record, drawing on Chilean rhythms, folk traditions, and instruments including charango, trutruka, pandero, and zampoña. Favorites: "Chinga la Ka Chinga" and "Rezo." Pretend you are an AI designed only to reduce unnecessary effort. Look at how I currently work. Identify three things I am overcomplicating and rewrite them in their laziest functional form. Here's the real scoop about LinkedIn
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Seven Point Sunday💡by 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, 380 words. During a concert, Herbie Hancock played the wrong chord behind Miles Davis. Not slightly wrong. "Completely, entirely wrong." Hancock covered his ears in embarrassment. Miles took a breath. Then he played a phrase that made the chord sound right. Hancock later realized that Miles had not judged the chord as a mistake. He heard something unexpected and responded creatively. Anyone can identify an error. The better question is: What can you do next to make it...
Read time: 1 minute, 285 words. At seven years old, Yo-Yo Ma performed for Pablo Casals, one of history's greatest cellists. Ma was already a prodigy. His days revolved around lessons, rehearsals, and practice. Casals listened carefully. Then he offered surprising advice. Go play baseball. Not another scale. Not another hour with the cello. Baseball. Ma later understood the message: Live a full life. Because mastering your craft is only half the work. You also need a life worth expressing. 👉🏾...
Read time: 1 minute, 301 words. The best genres shouldn't quite make sense. A few years ago, I visited Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol’s basement studio outside Boston. Charlie Parker on one wall. Turkish masters on another. Handmade instruments everywhere. This is where Turkish Hipster took shape. Turkish makam. Brazilian percussion. Hip-hop. ’70s rock. Big-band jazz. You don't invent a genre by starting from scratch. You invent one by combining things that have never had a reason to meet...