by Kabir Sehgal | Mar 22, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
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....
by Kabir Sehgal | Mar 15, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
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...
by Kabir Sehgal | Mar 8, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
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...
by Kabir Sehgal | Mar 1, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
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...
by Kabir Sehgal | Feb 22, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 370 words. In 2017, I traveled to Selma with Congressman John Lewis. Over breakfast at the hotel, I asked if I could record him reading a speech. I had a vague idea then. Maybe an album about Selma. Nothing concrete. We found an empty ballroom. I...
by Kabir Sehgal | Feb 15, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 367 words. A man is brought into the emergency room after an accident. He is bleeding badly. A doctor rushes over and prepares to treat him. Before the doctor can begin, the man interrupts. “Wait,” he says.”How did this happen...
by Kabir Sehgal | Feb 8, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 377 words. For most of my career, I rarely posted on social media. When I worked in finance, my employer discouraged it. That changed in June 2024, after I attended the Kit.com conference in Boise (and I no longer worked in banking). I learned...
by Kabir Sehgal | Feb 1, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 346 words. A veteran editor was finishing his final week at a newspaper. Decades of deadlines were behind him. When the editor-in-chief asked him to oversee one last issue, he agreed, already half checked out. He skimmed instead of reading...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 25, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 355 words. When I worked in corporate strategy, an exec snapped at me in a meeting. Raised voice. Tight room. Everyone went quiet. I assumed I’d messed something up. Later I learned the numbers had just fallen apart. The board was arriving...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 18, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 380 words. I’ve been lucky enough to write books with two of Dr. Martin Luther King’s top advisors: Congressman John Lewis & Ambassador Andrew Young, my Godfather. Uncle Andy taught me some powerful lessons… Like the right...
