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7PS: How to invent a genre π‘
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Read time: 1 minute, 301 words. The best genres shouldn't quite make sense. A few years ago, I visited Mehmet Ali SanlΔ±kolβs 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. β70s 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 before. Seven Point Sunday - September 27 β‘οΈ Productivity βInternxt - Privacy-forward secure cloud storage service that lets teams share sensitive files, photos, and documents. π° Wealth βEquityMultiple - Commercial real estate investing platform focused on institutional-grade deals. Lets accredited investors participate in equity and debt across office, industrial, and multifamily projects without sourcing or managing properties themselves. β βAn Immense World by Ed Yong. Coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. β βColossal Youth by Young Marble Giants. Recorded with minimal equipment and an intentionally limited palette, the album relies on restraint, repetition, and negative space. Drum machines, clean bass lines, and detached vocals create tension without volume or drama. β I have a half-finished draft, message, or idea that I abandoned. Tell me why a reasonable person would have stopped here. Then show me the smallest possible next step that would make it "complete enough" to send. β βDon't stop believin', hold on to that feelin'β
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Seven Point Sundayπ‘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, 359 words. There's a musical illusion that makes it sound like a note is rising forever. Itβs called a Shepard tone. It works by layering the same pitch pattern across several octaves. As the higher tones fade out, lower ones quietly fade in, so your ear hears continuous ascent even though the sound is actually looping. Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer used the idea in Dunkirk to create a feeling of constant escalation. And Nolan built that same sense of mounting...
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...
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...