I write to mention that the past MF Berkshire board repetedly became a Musk/Bezos (and others) Tesla/Amazon and others meeting place, that there was near total focus on how out-of-it Buffett was as to buying OXY instead of or as opposed to the hot stuff of the time. I just hope we can stay off such a focus with the new board.

And I write in the hope Manlobbi doesn't feel even tempted to give in to this (not so) subtle manipulation (as is clear from the subject line '... board management').

This ALWAYS was a point of heated discussion on the old Berkshire board (where Btw the OP rather belongs too: Manlobbi would have seen it there too). Why? Because we have on the Berkshire board groups with very different wishes. I remember just too well the result of a poll I did 2-3 years ago with respect to that. The options for what type of posts people would prefer were 'BRK only', 'BRK and similar (Markel or such)', 'wider investment stuff', 'everything'. There was a high percentage voting for 'focused', a high percentage voting for '+similar' and a high percentage for 'wider', with not that much in between them. Only 'everything' was not liked much.

In other words: 'stay off such' is just the opinion of a poster in one of three categories, which are completely different but were voted with around equal weight.