Tag: presentations
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Conference talks in an AI driven world are likely to get boring, or need to dramatically change
If “I will never write code again, and instead use AI to code” becomes the norm, what will programming conference talks look like. Most of those talks hinge on seeing someone stunt demo coding. But now you’ll just see them write prompts? Like, seeing Josh Long tell Claude to help get demented pets adopted would…
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Got your deck ready?
Image by geralt on Pixabay. The mystery is why everyone is using presentation software for communication that is not a presentation. Predicable, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this post since first reading it. The mystery of this is that everyone complains about slides-driven work cultures, but the revealed preference is that people…
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Bedazzled by slides and data
During the 2000s, slides became even more ornate. Consultancies evolved their formatting rules, and created fancy data-dense charts. They learned that a 200 slide deck made clients feel like they got a lot for their money. E.g.: I vividly remember being shown the charts room in fund manager Fidelity’s huge London office. There were graphs…
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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…
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PowerPoint and its infamous bullet points have been so abused in later years that the term “PowerPoint death” has become widespread, to the extent that some voices claim that PowerPoint is making us stupid or threatening our thinking and reasoning. It’s understandable that as a reaction some very popular books published in the last couple…
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