WEBVTT - How To Find Great People to Work With - UBI & Talent Distribution 0:00:21.993 --> 0:00:25.923 The idea that UBI reduces the need to work isn't new, 0:00:25.923 --> 0:00:29.283 but recent studies show that it does not lead to 0:00:29.313 --> 0:00:33.003 better jobs or more education. I think the issue here 0:00:33.003 --> 0:00:35.133 is that certain people will spend free time and money 0:00:35.133 --> 0:00:38.403 to better themselves, and certain people won't, and it's not 0:00:38.403 --> 0:00:41.583 clear why that is. It's not clear what the actual 0:00:41.583 --> 0:00:46.323 genius like factor is, but the way forward is basically 0:00:46.323 --> 0:00:49.023 trying to figure out what that is and not believing 0:00:49.023 --> 0:00:51.933 in fairy tales like giving away free money will make 0:00:51.933 --> 0:00:56.073 everyone ambitious. It does not. And this reminds me of 0:00:56.103 --> 0:00:59.703 a lesson that's very similar that I learned like 20 0:00:59.703 --> 0:01:03.603 years of hiring people, which is exposing people to training 0:01:03.603 --> 0:01:09.093 and encouragement makes the best people stand out, but it 0:01:09.093 --> 0:01:13.173 does not turn everyone into the best people. And I've 0:01:13.173 --> 0:01:16.833 known this because I tried because I tried for like 0:01:16.863 --> 0:01:20.973 ten years with cohort after cohort where I would just 0:01:20.973 --> 0:01:23.463 be like, oh, well, my training wasn't good enough. That's 0:01:23.463 --> 0:01:26.723 why they didn't get it, or they were distracted or 0:01:26.723 --> 0:01:29.153 they were busy or whatever. So I just keep hitting 0:01:29.153 --> 0:01:32.693 him and keep dumping hours and hours and hours and 0:01:32.693 --> 0:01:35.843 more training and more training and send them into more classes. 0:01:35.873 --> 0:01:38.033 And you come back to them and you're like, hey, 0:01:38.033 --> 0:01:40.463 what have you done? They're like, I don't know. I 0:01:40.463 --> 0:01:44.843 didn't do anything. What should I do? And you're like, uh, no, no. 0:01:44.843 --> 0:01:46.973 So you've you've got to figure out what you want 0:01:47.003 --> 0:01:49.163 to do. You've got to I've given you all the training, 0:01:49.163 --> 0:01:54.143 I've given you all the stuff and, uh, all the books. 0:01:54.143 --> 0:01:56.123 And I gave you all the demos. I told you 0:01:56.123 --> 0:01:58.373 how to set up the demos. I showed you how 0:01:58.373 --> 0:02:02.093 to set up the tech, and, um, have you done 0:02:02.093 --> 0:02:05.363 any of that? And they're like, no, what should I 0:02:05.363 --> 0:02:07.913 do first? I don't I don't know how to do 0:02:07.913 --> 0:02:10.523 any of that. Can you show me? And you're like, well, 0:02:10.553 --> 0:02:12.653 I showed you four times. You want me to show 0:02:12.653 --> 0:02:14.243 you a fifth time? Okay, sure. I'll show you a 0:02:14.243 --> 0:02:17.393 fifth time. Show them a fifth time. Come back two 0:02:17.393 --> 0:02:21.473 weeks later. Hey, how's it going? Going with what? With 0:02:21.473 --> 0:02:24.473 the stuff we talked about last time. And they're like, 0:02:24.503 --> 0:02:26.573 yeah I never got around to that. Like, I couldn't 0:02:26.573 --> 0:02:29.993 find this one driver. Like, there was a driver down low, 0:02:30.013 --> 0:02:33.553 but the driver download didn't work. It's like, okay, well, 0:02:33.553 --> 0:02:35.773 did you research that? No. How would I do that? 0:02:35.803 --> 0:02:40.513 Can you help me? That that ends up being like 0:02:40.813 --> 0:02:45.373 50 to 80% of everyone. Here's the alternative. Here's the 0:02:45.583 --> 0:02:51.823 alternate version of a star. Okay. You're like, hey, um. Hey, everyone. 0:02:51.823 --> 0:02:55.603 So check this out. This is a class about. And 0:02:55.603 --> 0:02:57.793 you see a hand go up. Hey, look, I read 0:02:57.793 --> 0:03:01.183 the whole document. Um, I looked forward in the class. 0:03:01.183 --> 0:03:04.543 I've got this thing running, but there's an error. Um, 0:03:04.573 --> 0:03:07.633 so I fixed it, and I stood up a different version, 0:03:07.633 --> 0:03:10.693 and it's running. Can I show you? And you're like, okay, 0:03:10.693 --> 0:03:13.993 so you basically read everything, jumped ahead in the class, 0:03:13.993 --> 0:03:16.783 built something. It didn't work, but you fixed it, and 0:03:16.783 --> 0:03:19.723 now you're running a different version and you want to 0:03:19.723 --> 0:03:21.433 show it to me now. But I just started my 0:03:21.433 --> 0:03:25.963 first sentence of the class and they're like, oh yeah, sorry. Yeah. 0:03:25.993 --> 0:03:30.943 Please continue. Sorry. I was just excited The difference between 0:03:30.943 --> 0:03:36.003 these two things are so insane. Okay. And what I've 0:03:36.003 --> 0:03:40.323 learned after all these years is that if you're trying 0:03:40.323 --> 0:03:44.793 to build a star team and you're trying to build 0:03:44.823 --> 0:03:48.873 like a group of the best people, what you want 0:03:48.903 --> 0:03:52.953 to do is throw help and throw training and throw 0:03:52.953 --> 0:03:58.683 encouragement to a massive group of people and not judge, 0:03:58.683 --> 0:04:03.573 not prejudge, not do anything. You have no idea. You 0:04:03.573 --> 0:04:06.573 have no idea. It's not people who wear yellow shirts. 0:04:06.573 --> 0:04:10.563 It's not people from Idaho. It's not people from Mississippi. 0:04:10.593 --> 0:04:15.273 You have no idea what the criteria are like background, 0:04:15.273 --> 0:04:19.743 ethnic group, you education, background. Are they educated? Do they 0:04:19.743 --> 0:04:23.013 have a PhD? Do they have two master's degrees? Are 0:04:23.013 --> 0:04:26.913 they still in high school? You don't know. And that's 0:04:26.913 --> 0:04:29.733 the smartest thing you could possibly realize is that you 0:04:29.733 --> 0:04:34.023 have no idea. You have no idea who's going to 0:04:34.233 --> 0:04:39.803 just be kind of, like, complete, Completely inert and just 0:04:39.803 --> 0:04:43.643 unable to learn and unwilling to learn and unable to 0:04:43.673 --> 0:04:49.103 absorb any amount of effort that you give. Versus some 0:04:49.103 --> 0:04:55.253 random person who doesn't think much of themselves and are 0:04:55.253 --> 0:05:01.703 unassuming and quiet and they just absolute sponge. Absolute murderer. 0:05:01.733 --> 0:05:06.473 Like the the craziest, best IT person you've ever found. 0:05:06.743 --> 0:05:10.133 And suddenly they just can't shut up about everything. It's like, oh, 0:05:10.133 --> 0:05:13.403 and I did this and I read everything. All those 0:05:13.403 --> 0:05:16.133 books that you recommended. And then I went and downloaded 0:05:16.133 --> 0:05:18.413 this and I oh, but I changed it. And I 0:05:18.413 --> 0:05:20.873 want to show you this thing, and you're just like, 0:05:20.903 --> 0:05:24.203 Holy crap. They were sitting right next to the other 0:05:24.203 --> 0:05:27.653 person who I gave the same exact training. This is 0:05:27.653 --> 0:05:33.863 a lesson, incredibly powerful lesson. And to bring it back 0:05:33.863 --> 0:05:38.363 to this article, I believe the same thing is true 0:05:38.393 --> 0:05:42.453 with UBI. The same thing is true with social Programs. 0:05:42.453 --> 0:05:46.473 The same thing is true with all these different things. 0:05:46.473 --> 0:05:49.383 So the whole trick and we're going to get a 0:05:49.383 --> 0:05:52.923 little broad here. The whole trick is to make sure 0:05:52.923 --> 0:05:58.923 that no one's at a disadvantage, okay. Cause trauma because 0:05:58.923 --> 0:06:04.893 they're hungry. Because they can't afford coverage. Right. Because there 0:06:04.893 --> 0:06:09.403 are stars all throughout this entire population. This these 8 0:06:09.403 --> 0:06:12.813 billion people that we have. There are stars who you 0:06:12.813 --> 0:06:15.153 will never know if they're a star because they can't 0:06:15.153 --> 0:06:19.143 make it to your class because they're working seven jobs 0:06:19.293 --> 0:06:22.683 and they got an ant and a dog and a 0:06:22.683 --> 0:06:27.033 and a parent and a girlfriend or a boyfriend who 0:06:27.033 --> 0:06:31.923 is sick. And so they're over here juggling and they're 0:06:31.923 --> 0:06:35.823 another Einstein, they're another von Neumann. And you will never 0:06:35.823 --> 0:06:39.573 know because they got screwed. They got screwed by luck 0:06:40.803 --> 0:06:44.553 So the goal and now we're going really broad. The 0:06:44.583 --> 0:06:47.393 goal is to build a society in which nobody is 0:06:47.393 --> 0:06:50.903 screwed in that way. And when they do get messed 0:06:50.903 --> 0:06:54.623 over in that way, we help them. We help them 0:06:54.623 --> 0:06:59.153 get back into this, remove the obstacles so that everyone 0:06:59.153 --> 0:07:01.853 has the opportunity to be one of these stars to 0:07:01.883 --> 0:07:08.483 stand out. But we should not think that everyone who 0:07:08.483 --> 0:07:14.603 gets exposed to the opportunities is necessarily going to be 0:07:14.603 --> 0:07:18.323 one of those stand out people. So if we see variation, 0:07:18.533 --> 0:07:20.963 which is probably going to look a lot like a 0:07:20.963 --> 0:07:23.543 bell curve, right, you're going to have most people in 0:07:23.543 --> 0:07:28.313 the middle. Um, when you see that variation, you should 0:07:28.343 --> 0:07:31.583 be like, yep, that's exactly what we expect to see. 0:07:32.003 --> 0:07:34.883 Most people in the middle, some people who don't want 0:07:34.913 --> 0:07:37.733 to do anything despite any training, and some people who 0:07:37.733 --> 0:07:42.353 could just hear the first word and write a book. Right. 0:07:42.353 --> 0:07:47.903 That's just expected. Now, I would say that there's some 0:07:47.903 --> 0:07:50.353 nuance here in the sense that, like, okay, if we 0:07:50.353 --> 0:07:56.293 can identify that grit and self-discipline and I don't know, 0:07:56.293 --> 0:07:59.503 something that we could try to put into culture, something 0:07:59.503 --> 0:08:02.983 we could try to put into education systems, something that 0:08:02.983 --> 0:08:06.163 we could try to put into training, something we could 0:08:06.163 --> 0:08:10.993 try to put into parental education if we could find 0:08:10.993 --> 0:08:13.903 those tokens and just like, make sure they're part of 0:08:13.903 --> 0:08:18.523 the training and that helps lift everyone or some number 0:08:18.523 --> 0:08:22.903 of people, that'll be fantastic. But it has to start 0:08:22.903 --> 0:08:28.363 with realizing there's going to be a distribution and that's 0:08:28.363 --> 0:08:33.703 going to be based on meritocracy, which is good. However, 0:08:33.703 --> 0:08:38.263 the whole purpose of society and liberal society, or liberal 0:08:38.413 --> 0:08:43.723 liberal approach to building a society is making sure that 0:08:43.723 --> 0:08:52.033 everyone can enter into the meritocracy funnel without disadvantage. That's 0:08:52.033 --> 0:08:54.223 that's the goal. That's the trick.