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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.
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Quincy pushed Michael Jackson to shorten it.

Michael refused.

He told Quincy,
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“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 producer’s job is not to fix the song.
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It’s to shut up and listen to the artist. 😲

​​-Kabir
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Seven Point Sunday – March 1
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💼 Portfolio Career

​Kevin Slavin – Technologist, artist, and writer whose career spans computer science, media theory, venture work, and experimental art.
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⚡️ Productivity

​Tana. AI-powered knowledge graph turns your ideas, meetings and projects into action.
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💰 Wealth

​Portfolio Visualizer. Test asset allocations, historical returns, and drawdowns without selling. Useful for stress-testing assumptions before committing real money.
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📚 Books

​The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga. A dialogue-driven introduction to Adlerian psychology that focuses on responsibility, freedom, and letting go of external validation rather than self-optimization.

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🎵 Music

​Hounds of Love by Kate Bush. The album was split deliberately into two halves: traditional pop songwriting on side one, and the conceptual suite The Ninth Wave on side two. Bush wrote, produced much of the record herself, using the Fairlight CMI to construct textures that were unusual for mainstream pop in 1985.

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💭 AI Prompt

Describe a version of my life that looks successful from the outside but quietly drains me. Explain exactly why that version is appealing and why it fails me anyway.

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🥣 Gravy

​5 truths about winning together​
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​7 rich people problems nobody talks about​
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​If you want creative freedom, build a biz that funds it​

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