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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 wasnโt about me. It was pressure spilling onto the nearest surface. I didn't enjoy it, but it taught me something. ๐๐ฝ Here's a framework for not taking things personally.โโ โโ-Kabir Seven Point Sunday - January 25 Meet Simone Giertz. Inventor, product designer, YouTuber who turned "useless robots" into a serious creative career. โก๏ธ Productivity โReflect.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.โ ๐ฐ 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. ๐ Books โSame 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. ๐ต Music โExtended 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." ๐ญ AI Prompt โ โ 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, 358 words. A composer friend of mine was offered a well-paid film scoring job he didn't love.He asked me whether he should take it.So we thought through the math together.He is 62.The average life expectancy for U.S. men is about 76, so he may have ~14 years left.We sleep about 1/3 of our lives, which means maybe he has ~ 9.7 awake years.The project would have taken 2 years.So, I asked him:Do you want to spend ~20% of what's left on this project? He declined the...
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...