The ongoing existential quandary of corporate presentations and meetings:
“PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive the presentation."
The full thought:
it doesn’t exactly help you communicate something (you do that in Word, or Excel); or coordinate something (you do that in Outlook, or nowadays Slack). PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive the presentation. It helps you cope: “You have no real power over this situation, yet you represent it.” And the experience of making slides, one after another, flows from that initial job-to-be-done of divide-and-conquering the presentation into individually survivable sections, slides, and bullet points.
There’s not usually such real-life stuff in VC blog posts.
Also: “getting lost in the sauce.”
Related: people in this study prefer AIs that write like great authors more than the original, human authors.