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7PS: The Value of Being Less Interesting ๐ค
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Read time: 1 minute, 337 words. Valerie Plame spent years working undercover in places like Athens and Brussels. Even many friends and acquaintances did not suspect. Her husband later explained how she did it: Most people are interested in talking about themselves. That detail stayed with me. The more you talk about yourself, the less you learn. The more interested you are in other people, the more they open up. Curiosity is a kind of skeleton key. Try that the next time you go to an event. Talk less. Ask more. See what opens. -Kabirโโ Seven Point Sunday - March 22 โStewart Brand โ Writer, editor, and systems thinker whose career spans environmentalism, publishing, technology culture, and long-term forecasting. โก๏ธ Productivity โRaindrop.io. Bookmarking and knowledge-saving tool thatโs useful when your inputs are scattered across the web. Better for curating what you want to return to than trying to remember where you saw it.โ ๐ฐ Wealth Net-Worth Friction Check - Open a notes app and list every account where you hold money. Next to each one, write how many steps it would take to access cash in an emergency. If any meaningful amount of money requires 2+ steps, simplify or consolidate. Liquidity is a feature, not a failure. ๐ Books โEssentialism by Greg McKeown. Practical argument for doing less but better, with an emphasis on setting boundaries, removing non-essential commitments, and protecting time for what actually matters. ๐ต Music โThe Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest. Built around upright bass lines and minimal sampling, the album deliberately rejected the louder, harder production trends of early โ90s hip-hop. Its jazz-forward approach reshaped how space, rhythm, and restraint could function in rap. ๐ญ AI Prompt ๐ฅฃ Gravy 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, 305 words. Today is March 15. The Ides of March. So I find myself thinking about Julius Caesar. Not how he died. But how he once got kidnapped by pirates. They demanded 20 talents for his release. He laughed. He told them to ask for 50. Even as a hostage, he refused a discount on himself. Maybe confidence is not optimism. Maybe it is pricing yourself correctly. So, where in your life are you still underquoting your own worth? -Kabir Seven Point Sunday - March 15๐ผ...
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...