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Investing legend Warren Buffett continues to pare down his schedule.

In a new profile of Buffett’s successor at Berkshire Hathaway, Greg Abel, Fortune reached out to Buffett and, though they did not land an interview with the Oracle of Omaha, the outlet surfaced a consistent, if unexpected, nugget about the daily cadence for the 94-year-old CEO.

“I couldn’t feel better about Greg,” Buffett told Fortune.

“But I’m just not doing interviews anymore. At 94, bridge isn’t the only activity that’s slowed down for me. I’m still having a lot of fun and am able to do a few things reasonably well. But other activities have been eliminated or greatly minimized.”

Berkshire is set to hold its annual shareholder meeting in Omaha this May. And Berkshire’s annual report — accompanied by a letter from Buffett — will be published in February if past schedules hold.

But back in November 2024, Buffett announced some of his holdings in Berkshire would be converted from A shares to B shares to be more effectively donated to various foundations run by his family.

A standard piece of estate planning that, for someone of his stature leading one of the largest companies in the world, does warrant a public statement.

Yet the announcement went beyond a simple bit of disclosure for investors, adding a few pages of advice on what it means to acquire, manage, and distribute the great fortunes some might accumulate over a lifetime that were typical Buffett.

An unexpected missive on a November morning published the week of Thanksgiving, otherwise unremarkable but for Buffett’s continued frankness about planning for the next stages of his corporate and family legacy.

“Father time always wins,” Buffett wrote.

“But he can be fickle — indeed unfair and even cruel — sometimes ending life at birth or soon thereafter while, at other times, waiting a century or so before paying a visit. To date, I’ve been very lucky, but, before long, he will get around to me.”