I suppose if you use the term A-list more than like, hardly ever, and especially if you worry about not being "on the A-list", you have much bigger problems than how many hits a day your app/site/blog/whatever gets.
I don't know, I work pretty damn hard. At 3am I'm writing code. I've been getting less than five hours of sleep a night, and have had no free time. Then again I'm dedicated to my company.
I'm in the same boat (in that I work my butt off), but I found it inspirational nonetheless. The primary message I took away wasn't really to "work harder." For me, it's a great reminder I can look at every now and then to remember that we all make our own destinies plus or minus the particulars of our own circumstances.
I think the guy's got a valid point, although perhaps not related directly to the "quantity" of work that you do. The real message here is "Follow this rule if you want to succeed: Whenever you're about to complain about something you haven't acheived, do something productive towards achieving it".