by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 16, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 390 words. 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...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 9, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 370 words. Making money in indie music is tough. A project might earn $100 from streaming in a year. So I have to be thoughtful about where my time goes. The number of artists and engineers I work with gets smaller every year. Not because...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 2, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 329 words. Folks tell me all the time: you do too much. But high output can lead to better results. Because every rep sharpens your instincts. Prince recorded 39 studio albums. He worked in studios, backstage, and hotel rooms. He captured ideas...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jul 26, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 322 words. More options can kill your creativity. Brian Eno recorded Another Green World with a limited set of synths and tape machines. In 1975, he and Peter Schmidt created Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards designed to force new creative...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jul 19, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 294 words. In 1941, Olivier Messiaen was a prisoner in a German POW camp. In a freezing barracks, using the instruments available, he composed and premiered his Quartet for the End of Time. The audience included prisoners and German guards. The...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jul 12, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 362 words. A few years ago, a country artist asked about my producer fees. I explained that I don’t charge fees. I also told him I probably wasn’t the right fit for his music. But he kept pushing. “But you must want something!”...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jun 28, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 271 words. How do you stay close to people who don’t share your craft? I struggle to maintain relationships with people outside my creative world. Most of my friendships form through making things together. Projects, deep work, shared...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jun 21, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 410 words. With America’s 250th upon us, a yarn for you. Benjamin Franklin didn’t begin by joining powerful rooms. He built one. In 1727, at just 21, he founded the Junto in Philadelphia. It was a mutual-improvement club for...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jun 14, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 329 words. I read a line in the Financial Times that stuck with me. For first-time passengers in a driverless car, it takes ~2 mins to go from astonishment to boredom. Two minutes. No driver. The steering wheel moving on its own. A century of...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jun 7, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 362 words. In 1914, the British Navy had 62 battleships. By 1928, it had just 20. The fleet was shrinking. The empire was shrinking. But back at headquarters, something strange happened. The Admiralty staff grew by almost 80%. More administrators....
