{"podcast":{"title":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*","slug":"yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","podcast_index_feed_id":7106663,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://makoto-hoshino.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42313807/42313807-1729942256050-67940c9698ba4.jpg","author":"MakotowillOlympusMons","episode_count":644,"summary":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:17:25.711616+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663"},"episode":{"title":"\"You Can Do It If You Try\" Is Risky. Think About Your Career in Terms of Energy Efficiency, Not Willpower.","slug":"you-can-do-it-if-you-try-is-risky-think-about-your-career-in-terms-of-energy-efficiency-not-willpower","published_at":"2026-05-27T12:40:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/you-can-do-it-if-you-try-is-risky-think-about-your-career-in-terms-of-energy-efficiency-not-willpower","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/You-Can-Do-It-If-You-Try-Is-Risky--Think-About-Your-Career-in-Terms-of-Energy-Efficiency--Not-Willpower-e3jtnds","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/120560508/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-26%2Fb2de8c9d-7fdb-a5ed-d683-658c4de17c7f.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at a book encountered by chance at a bookstore — *To Everyone Who Couldn't Become a Genius* by Kappy, creator of Left-Handed Ellen — and the idea at its center that stuck: "MP consumption," borrowed from video game logic. The frame is simple but pointed. Use a powerful spell and your MP drops sharply. You win the fight, but you can't move until you've rested. The book applies this to careers — arguing that the core of sustainable work should be built around "high-efficiency cards," things you can do better than most and that don't drain you no matter how long you spend on them. It touches on a parallel idea from Naval Ravikant, and the way the two books seem to converge on the same question: not just "can you do this?" but "when you're doing it, is it eating into your mental HP and MP?" There's also a brief look at how this connects to the AI moment — as more and more things become doable with assistance, the question of what you can *sustain* without wearing yourself down becomes its own separate and more pressing issue. A quiet look at the difference between willpower and efficiency, and why sorting through your own cards — not by what you're capable of, but by what leaves you depleted versus what quietly restores you — might be the more useful way to think about a career.","meta_description":"This episode looks at a book encountered by chance at a bookstore — *To Everyone Who Couldn't Become a Genius* by Kappy, creator of Left-Handed Ellen — an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":164,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/you-can-do-it-if-you-try-is-risky-think-about-your-career-in-terms-of-energy-efficiency-not-willpower/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/you-can-do-it-if-you-try-is-risky-think-about-your-career-in-terms-of-energy-efficiency-not-willpower.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}