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Glad to see you here
Me to, though the wording is very understated! Rationalwalk besides being a fine person was one of the most creative Berkshire Hathaway analysts here in the past.
If I may purely speculate from what I perceived at the time, rationalwalk left - 100% understandably - because of a combination of high noise levels, and incessant rudeness toward him (in one word, insensitivity).
I posted far less but likewise left somewhat later for similar reasons and started the 'Manlobbi's Descent' board there a year or so after publishing the book in 2016.
Some others also left the Berkshire board when there were periods of high noise, but didn't return.
Echoing what others have observed, the noise levels here have reduced quite a lot. Noise down, politeness up.
Thank you to rationalwalk for any post, and thank you to everyone here for keeping the atmosphere at Shrewd'm more curious, respectful and meticulous (with the converse being than crass, egotistical and lazy - seriously avoid these three).
Consequently such creative and intelligent (and actually psychologically 'normal') authors will enjoy to share their insights.
I write 'normal' because I expect that those that leave when observing narcissism are the normal ones and those that insinuate nastiness, remain and brag about how thick skinned they are, are often the abnormal traumatised ones.
Also please remember that the 'ignore user' (clicking the unhappy yellow face) feature can be useful. I can say however, thankfully, it has almost not been used at all thus far. This is another very good omen.
- Manlobbi
