What Boat Are You In?

The Five Star Minute · Sep 6, 2026 · 2m

While riding my old bike, I watched people on racing bikes and e-bikes fly past me with less apparent effort. We were covering the same road, but using very different tools. Episode 252 asks whether the same principle now applies to work. Traditional careers can demand decades of education and effort, while technology, social media, entrepreneurship and AI have created entirely different forms of leverage. Hard work still has value, but perhaps working harder isn't automatically the smartest answer. Sometimes the more important question is whether all that effort is being invested in the…