ey all look alike when you hire them. They all look like, well you know I talked to ten people and any one of those ten might have been the superstar. I don't know. Can't tell. But you can tell after they start. You can tell if they're killing it after six months. So if you don't execute the kill switch then you don't have the skill to be a good manager. So it's the firing that is the skill.

All right, so everybody's buying that the firing is skillful. You haven't worked in engineering land before. So what I'm saying is that if you see somebody looking differently because the only contact you have with them is in a virtual world in which they're an avatar not a person, your decision-making system will be interrupted and you'll have to use a different one. So the avatar that you choose to represent you will have a gigantic effect on your success in the real world. You just don't realize it.

So if your avatar is a giant, let's say, weasel and you think it just looks cute but people who see it think weasel or skunk or something, that is going to affect you. Your actual life will be much affected if you choose to look like a skunk because it's cool and it's edgy or you just like the colors white and black, whatever.

And so here's just putting it all together. You don't realize that people pretty much make their decisions on looks because you're sure that you don't do it. I'm sure that you do. What you do is you make your decision on looks and then you talk yourself into it by saying perfect qualifications, I liked how he or she answered that question. But it's not really that. It just looks. It's basically how much you want to mate with them. That's pretty much it.

And sometimes it works the other way. Sometimes there's a jealousy factor where good-looking people could be discriminated against. I've actually seen that happen in hiring because the people who worked there were not good-looking and they didn't want anybody there who was. That's actually a thing. But the point is in both cases looks are the real reason you're doing something.

School choice won big in Iowa in the election. So I guess eight out of nine candidates who are super pro-school-choice beat out their challengers, including incumbents. So we now know that there's an issue, a single issue, which moves the dial, and it's school choice at least at the state level. So I feel as if it's time for a presidential candidate to make a stand on that. They always have opinions on it but it's never been a central point of anything. And somebody could make that work. So watch for school choice to be the big thing.

There was an article that says that weed lowers your IQ over time. So if you use it every day your IQ will decline by 5.5 points on average from childhood. Do you believe that? If you use weed every day your IQ will decrease 5.5 points, not 5.5 percent, by 5.5 points.

So here's why this is a problem for some people more than others. Suppose your IQ is 100, supposedly average. Society is built for people with roughly an IQ of 100 because if they didn't build it that way people wouldn't be able to open doors and use cars, just operate society. They wouldn't be able to buy a bus ticket. So you have to make everything in society work for people who are around an IQ of 100.

Well what happens if you take 5.5 points off of somebody who's just barely smart enough to operate the machinery of civilization? It's dangerous, I would say. If you take somebody who's marginally smart enough to navigate life and you take five points off their IQ you've turned them into kind of a high-functioning... and maybe that's not such a good thing.

So if you have an IQ of 100 I do not recommend smoking pot every day. I mean I don't disrecommend it. I'm not a doctor so don't take my advice either way. That would be my overall advice. But I suppose you had an IQ of 145 and you smoked weed and took 5.5 points off it, you'd still be the smartest person in the room. Would it make any difference?

So let's say the side effect is the same as five points off your IQ no matter who you are. I'm going to make an argument that for some people it might not make a difference. You know if they're physicists maybe lay