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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, 353 words. Years ago, I spent months talking with a composer about scoring a video game. When the client finally gave the green light, he emailed to say he could no longer do it. On another project, after months of similar conversations, a different composer also had to bow out. But she called me. So when the next project came along, who do you think I asked first? There's a lesson in how we say no. It depends on who is asking, what the project is, and how much time has...
Read time: 1 minute, 338 words. One of the most important pieces in music history was booed so loudly the dancers couldn't hear the orchestra. At the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, people shouted, fought and caused enough chaos that the choreography had to be counted from backstage. Today, the work is considered revolutionary. There's a useful reminder here. When you do something genuinely new, the first reaction may not be applause. Sometimes "they don’t get it" comes...