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I spent 100+ hours listening to, curating, and editing the Dalai Lama’s voice while making a meditation album.

Someone asked me what the most useful thing I learned was.

I answered immediately:

“The enemy is your best teacher.”
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As HHDL says, “With enemy, you can practice patience. That is one of the important factors for peace of mind.”

This stayed with me because discomfort often feels like it’s being caused by someone else.

But the frustration, tension, and chemical reactions are happening inside my own body and mind.

Meanwhile, my “enemy” may be blissfully unaware.

So why am I making myself suffer?

Now, when I feel triggered or disappointed, I return to this teaching.

Maybe this person isn’t the problem…

Maybe they’re helping me practice patience and strengthen my compassion.

👉🏽 I hope this 5 minute meditation helps you too.

​​-Kabir
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Seven Point Sunday – August 16
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💼 Portfolio Career

​Alexandra Horowitz – Cognitive scientist, author, and professor whose career spans psychology, animal cognition, writing, and public scholarship. She wrote Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know.
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⚡️ Productivity

​Stretchly – Lightweight break reminder that nudges you to step away from your screen at regular intervals.
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💰 Wealth

​Series EE Savings Bonds – U.S. savings bonds that double in value if held for 20 years, effectively locking in a guaranteed return. Boring, slow, and oddly powerful for long-term, low-attention capital.
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📚 Books

​The Status Game by Will Storr. Sharp exploration of how status drives behavior, ambition, morality, and identity. It explains why people chase meaning through hierarchy, how different “status games” collide, and what happens when we confuse approval with progress.
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🎵 Music

​The Velvet Rope by Janet Jackson. Recorded during a period of intense personal upheaval, the album blends R&B, trip-hop, and electronic textures with themes of vulnerability, self-protection. Its whispery production, tight sequencing, and emotional coherence helped redefine what mainstream pop could sound like when it stopped trying to be invulnerable.
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💭 AI Prompt

You are an overly serious documentary narrator. Describe my daily routine as if it were an important historical ritual. Use dramatic language. Subtly imply future scholars are confused by some of my choices.
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🥣Gravy​
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​Every day is a winding road​

​You think leadership is about giving orders​

​Why we should all thank Cadbury Dairy Milk​

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