Tyler Crowe

I want to pose this question to you guys.

Because this is very much one of the signal versus noise problems that we as investors have to grapple with every day, how have you oriented your investing, we'll call it the signal detector, to filter out what in the moment seems like a pretty big deal?

Speaking of people hitting retirement age, we're going to talk about Warren Buffett's most recent letter coming up next.

One of the lingering questions many Berkshire Hathaway investors have had since Warren Buffett announced he was stepping away from the CEO role was, how will he be involved?

Will this still be like brokering deals as executive chairman?

Will he still be doing those marathon Q&A sessions at the annual meeting?

I think there was a lot of wish casting around Berkshire's future.

Oh, he'll swoop in when he needs to, to get those big deals or something like that.

But we got a little bit more sense of finality this week of

Warren Buffett's tenure when he penned a Thanksgiving letter that more or less said he's laid out his future role.

And in short, Greg Abel's going to handle all of it.

Now, the one thing that Buffett did commit to was an annual Thanksgiving letter, the one that he just penned, and for as long as he can do it.

I certainly have thoughts on how this clarifies the role Buffett will play in the future, but I would like to get your thoughts on it as well.

Was what Warren Buffett announced, where it's basically he's saying, I'm going to basically walk away from more or less all the things you've known that me doing was kind of what you expected?

I think at this point, anybody who has spent more than 12 hours working in the financial investing media world that the three of us find ourselves in, we've had at least one tidbit of Buffett advice that's really stuck with us.

I'll give mine, and I want you guys to give yours, and any parting thoughts on Thanksgiving letter.

It was at the 1999 annual meeting.

Somebody asked, if you were to start over today,

What would you do?"

It sounds a little glib, but he basically said, start with the A's.