7PS: Creative work starts in the margins πŸ–ΌοΈ

by | Sep 13, 2026

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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 different paths, one useful idea:

Creative careers often build quietly, alongside something else.

Sometimes that’s how depth is built.
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πŸ‘‰πŸ½ Learn how these 3 approaches can help you build a deeper creative practice alongside your day job.

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Seven Point Sunday – September 13
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πŸ’Ό Portfolio Career​
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Meet Silvia Wiesner. Consultant, board member, speaker. “We are more than any title.” Schedule: updating clients, dinner prep, online magazines.
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⚑️ Productivity

​Krisp – AI-powered solution removes background noise and echo from meetings, leaving only human voice.

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πŸ’° Wealth

The Attention-to-Capital Rule. Wealth should demand less of you over time, not more. Early on, money often requires attention to grow. As soon as it works, the job is to move profits into assets that run quietly. If your net worth increases but the mental load increases with it, you’re not compounding wealth, you’re compounding obligation. Durable wealth is boring by design.

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πŸ“š Books

Read Help Me, I’m Stuck by Vaughn Carter. While it may seem so, it’s not the circumstances around you that control the outcome, but the power of your thoughts and how you look at things.
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🎡 Music

​Ave de Luz: Chilean Jazz & Soul by Claudia AcuΓ±a. More than three decades after moving from Chile to New York, she puts the music of her home country at the center of this record, drawing on Chilean rhythms, folk traditions, and instruments including charango, trutruka, pandero, and zampoΓ±a. Favorites: “Chinga la Ka Chinga” and “Rezo.”

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πŸ’­ AI Prompt

Pretend you are an AI designed only to reduce unnecessary effort. Look at how I currently work. Identify three things I am overcomplicating and rewrite them in their laziest functional form.

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