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I think the biggest news of the weekend is that

Warren Buffett still uses Times New Roman in his slide presentations.

I mean that's got to be the last person on the planet who does that.

He taught us a very good lesson.

Either have the best PowerPoint presentations or the worst.

We had a conference a few years ago in New York, our first evidence-based investor conference

and Charlie Ellis spoke.

And I remember thinking that he had the simplest slides I've ever seen it was just

black and white no pictures no formatting some of the space is weird yeah nothing

like no memes and probably had one of the best presentations of anyone and yeah it's like if you get to that

stage and you just don't care anymore and you're gonna be good as it is it doesn't matter so I

guess Buffett talked for four and a half hours or something.

Remarkable.

Yeah, in a live streamed.

There was something for everyone I think in this.

No matter what your priors were going into it,

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