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7PS: It's not me. It's you. ππ½
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Read time: 1 minute, 355 words. When I worked in corporate strategy, an exec snapped at me in a meeting. Raised voice. Tight room. Everyone went quiet. I assumed I'd messed something up. Later I learned the numbers had just fallen apart. The board was arriving that afternoon. Three decisions had failed that morning. The reaction wasnβt about me. It was pressure spilling onto the nearest surface. I didn't enjoy it, but it taught me something. ππ½ Here's a framework for not taking things personally.ββ ββ-Kabir Seven Point Sunday - January 25 Meet Simone Giertz. Inventor, product designer, YouTuber who turned "useless robots" into a serious creative career. β‘οΈ Productivity βReflect.app - minimalist knowledge base designed for thinking, not just storing notes. Encourages daily reflection, backlinks ideas automatically, and helps you build a long-term thinking archive instead of scattered files.β π° Wealth 2 numbers that matter. Your monthly burn rate and your liquid net worth. If you know how much it costs you to live and how long your cash can cover that, you know your real runway. Everything else is detail. This framework cuts through financial noise and keeps focus on survival, freedom, and leverage. π Books βSame as Ever by Morgan Houssel. A study of what never changes about human behavior, incentives, risk, and decision-making. Instead of predicting the future, it focuses on timeless patterns that repeat across decades. Useful for investing, careers, and life design. π΅ Music βExtended Daydream by Lisa Hilton. Elegant, cinematic jazz piano with dreamlike flow. Moves between nature-inspired calm and vintage cool, anchored by a band she's recorded with for years and engineers she's worked with across more than 20 albums. Favorites: "It's Just for Now" and "Seabirds." β π AI Prompt β β β 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, 380 words. I've been lucky enough to write books with two of Dr. Martin Luther King's top advisors: Congressman John Lewis & Ambassador Andrew Young, my Godfather. Uncle Andy taught me some powerful lessons... Like the right time to tell someone to "eff off." (silently, of course) Here are 9 provocative tips from Uncle Andy. -Kabir Seven Point Sunday - January 18πΌ Portfolio Career Meet Troy Aikman. He's not just a Hall-of-Fame Quarterback. He also founded a beer company....
Read time: 1 minute, 300 words.A man stands in front of a locked door he's been trying to open for months. He studies the hinges.He inspects the grain of the wood.He wonders who built it and why. He sketches diagrams.Reads manuals.Asks others what they think is on the other side. What he doesn't do is turn the knob. One day, almost out of frustration, he finally does. The door opens. It was never locked.It was just heavy. Many things we call confusion are actually resistance to effort....
Read time: 1 minute, 284 words.At the beginning of every year, I kind of disappear. I delete social media & messenger apps on my phone.I automate my social media postings. I make the time so I can write, compose, produce. I'm a big believer in this app, which helps me vanish. With focus, everything feels possible.-Kabir Seven Point Sunday - January 4πΌ Portfolio Career Meet Soulaima Gourani. Tech exec, solopreneur, board member. She has to push against the idea that being multi-dimensional...