WORK LESS WEDNESDAY
WLW #193
👋 Hey Reader!
This is issue #193 of Work Less Wednesday, where I share with you 5 things you should know about, in 5 minutes or less. That leaves you with 10,075 other minutes this week.
🧭 1. This Week’s Substack Post – Your Inner Compass
Got a good one for this week!
Right now you have access to an advisor better than any coach, consultant, or therapist.
You just keep ignoring it.
This week’s Substack post is about how to listen to your inner compass to make better business decisions.
You’ll be able to:
- Make decisions faster (and more accurately)
- Build a business more aligned with what you want
- Cultivate a higher degree of self-trust
- And yes, make a lot more money
In it, I also provide 3 tools you can use to start cultivating your inner entrepreneur, right now.
🛠️ 2. Tool I’ve Been Using Daily For Inspiration – Sublime
This week’s Substack post was graciously sponsored by Sublime and I thought I’d share it here as well.
Sublime is my favorite tool for creative thinking and cultivating my taste.
I use it daily (literally) to collect references, images, quotes, articles, and ideas that move me, which I can later use in my life and work.
You can see the canvas I made for this week’s Substack in Sublime:
You can try it here for free and use code RICH to get 20% off a paid subscription.
🤖 3. Paid Workshop I’m Hosting Next Week – “How I’m Using AI In My Business”
Doing a fun workshop for my paid Substack subscribers on the 20th.
It will be about how I’m using AI in my business, right now.
This is something I’ve been getting a lot of questions about.
I’m going to break down some of the tools I’m using and how I’m using them (including my most-requested workflow, how I’m creating viral images for social media).
I have a pretty high bar for AI, so all the workflows I’m going to share are actually going to do something, not just make you feel productive.
Sign up for the paid tier; $15 a month to get access (cancel anytime).
P.S. For those already signed up, note the date change, it was originally scheduled for Thursday, the 19th.
🔥 4. Update On My Dante Reading Journey
A few weeks ago, I shared in WLW that I would be reading Dante’s Divine Comedy.
I found a challenge called 100 Days of Dante, which is an email course that has you go through one canto every day.
I’m pleased to say I am in the middle of Inferno right now and greatly enjoying it.
BUT…
Ultimately, I ended up discovering some better resources to help me digest the literature than 100 Days of Dante.
Here’s what I’m doing now:
- Columbia’s Digital Dante program. It includes multiple translations, detailed notes for each canto, and a full Dante course that they teach over two semesters.
- Claude. Because of the sheer volume of scholarly research on the Divine Comedy, I have found Claude to be extremely helpful in aggregating research. For each canto, I am able to get a detailed summary and interesting passages to pay attention to. It has really enriched my experience reading it. This is actual great AI use case.
- Dante art. Finally, there is a huge amount of visual art that accompanies the Divine Comedy. And nearly all of it is incredible. This article from the Public Domain Review is a great place to start.
🖐 5. More Things I’m Into This Week…
🎧 Podcast I Listened To This Week – Rick Rubin + Bill Gurley
🥤 Drink I’ve Been Enjoying – Recess Mood (I like the Tropical Bliss flavor)
🟩 Movie I Watched This Week – The Moment
📬 Killer Guide To Writing Cold Emails – How To Write An Unignorable Email
💬 Quote I’m Pondering…
“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” – Miles Davis
How we can work together
When you’re ready, here are two free ways I can help you:
- 👤 My Substack. My weekly Substack inner entrepreneur discusses the internal side of entrepreneurship – mindset & growth.
- 🎧 My Podcast. Listen to or watch my free podcast The Rich Webster Show. It is an unfiltered look behind the scenes at my life and work.
And two paid engagements:
- 💸 How To Charge More (COHORT 2 – APRIL). Live cohort for entrepreneurs who want to scale their business by charging higher prices.
- 🤝 Creative Partnership (1:1). I work closely with high-level creative entrepreneurs + consultants to hit their first (or next) million in revenue.