Benjamin Felix

He mentions that during our conversation, but it's still pretty cool.

Yeah.

So I think that's a pretty good overview of Michael and warning to listeners.

It's a very nerdy episode, but I think there are a lot of good financial planning takeaways that stem from the nerdy discussion about the model.

Any other thoughts?

No, let's get to the episode.

Cool.

Let's go to our conversation with Michael Kothikoda.

Michael Kotakota, welcome to the Rational Reminder Podcast.

Very excited to be talking to you.

We like to joke with our audience that they like nerdy episodes, and I'm pretty sure this is going to be a very nerdy episode.

So quite interesting.

Yeah, that was another good nerdy episode.

Let's start off here.

In plain language, what is interdependent integrative financial planning theory?

Can you describe what you think the central insight of the theory is?

you've basically taken mathematics, applied it to building like a mathematical model of financial planning, broadly speaking, which itself is crazy.

And then there's a preferential weighting to each of those categories based on what somebody cares about.

And then there's a time dimension to how those things are going to change over time.

And you've taken all of that, put it into a model.