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If you expect a how-to guide for stock picking, look elsewhere. If you want a quiet, devastating portrait of genius and its costs—and a lesson on what actually constitutes a well-lived life— Becoming Warren Buffett is essential viewing. It is a 90-minute masterclass in the art of the Inner Scorecard.

The film contrasts this with the fate of many hedge fund managers (implied but not named) who live by the outer scorecard—yachts, private jets, magazine covers. Buffett drives an old Cadillac. He spends five hours a day reading annual reports and newspapers. The discipline is not asceticism; it is focus. He has removed every distraction that does not compound knowledge. The last act of Becoming Warren Buffett covers his relationship with Bill and Melinda Gates. In a remarkable home video, a young Bill Gates is seen at Buffett’s Omaha house, trying to explain a new concept called "the internet." Buffett jokes that he probably uses a mouse about once a year.

Buffett admits, with a chilling honesty uncommon in billionaire profiles, that he is "not an emotionally open person." He describes his brain as a machine that is "always on"—calculating arbitrage opportunities even during family vacations. Susie was the "house" that raised their children and managed the emotional labor of their lives. She was also the one who, after 25 years of marriage, moved to San Francisco to pursue a singing career, though they never divorced.

But the documentary itself is about the opposite of efficiency. It is about the inefficiencies of human emotion, the slow compounding of character, and the long, boring discipline of doing a few things right for six decades.

Despite his technological ignorance, Buffett agreed to donate the vast majority of his fortune to the Gates Foundation. The documentary frames this as the ultimate "value investment": Buffet believed that Gates could deploy capital to solve global health problems more efficiently than he could.