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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, 367 words. A man is brought into the emergency room after an accident. He is bleeding badly. A doctor rushes over and prepares to treat him. Before the doctor can begin, the man interrupts. "Wait," he says."How did this happen exactly?Who was responsible?Could this have been prevented?What kind of mistake led to this?" The doctor tries to stop the bleeding, but the man keeps talking.He wants answers.He wants certainty. By the time the questions end, it is too late. I...
Read time: 1 minute, 377 words. For most of my career, I rarely posted on social media. When I worked in finance, my employer discouraged it. That changed in June 2024, after I attended the Kit.com conference in Boise (and I no longer worked in banking). I learned that growth comes from sharing knowledge and being useful.(Unless you're BeyoncΓ© or Stef Curry who can post whatever they want...) In 2025, I showed up: LinkedIn = 365 posts Facebook > 400 posts Threads > 700 posts Total: >2k posts...
Read time: 1 minute, 346 words. A veteran editor was finishing his final week at a newspaper. Decades of deadlines were behind him. When the editor-in-chief asked him to oversee one last issue, he agreed, already half checked out. He skimmed instead of reading closely.Let small errors slide.Chose speed over care. After it went to print, the editor-in-chief handed him a copy. "This is the last issue with your name on it," she said. Only then did he notice the typos.The weak headlines.The...