> Equating SIGINT programs to protect America's interest with the Nazi party is really shrill.
Totally agree. Please stop me if I ever do that. Those other kind of SIGINT programs, the ones that attempt to collect every single email and phone call and GPS location and internet search in my life and store it indefinitely, are a little more of a direct comparison though, don't you think?
> Efficiency is universal.
Efficiency is actually fairly hard to come by I think. It's terribly designed presentations with bad clip art, illegible diagrams, and meaningless and redundant process slides that seem to be universal as far as I can tell.
I don't think powerpoint is bad as much as meetings and presentations, in general are bad. Powerpoint is just a tool for that social convention. The real question is why do we continue to have low information events like meetings and presetnations? I think the answer is something the typical INTJ male wouldn't like: because its how organizations work on a social and political level. The guy running the meeting, if he does a good job, can impress brass, raise his prestige, etc. Its not a productive event in itself, though it may lead to productivity and efficiency if the ideas are sound. Usually though, they are social events to benefit the careers of certain stakeholders.
The powerpoint bashing seems silly to me. You guys should be bashing meetings. There's a real forest for the trees aspect here. Amazon bans it, and instead they have everyone read a 6 page memo. Both are terrible if you ask me. 90% of meetings and presentations shouldn't exist. Stop-gap measures to "fix" useless meetings will just re-invent the next Powerpoint.
tldr; the culture of meetings is broken, not the tools
I have been to plenty of productive meetings and plenty of meetings with PowerPoint; however, none of the productive meetings used PowerPoint. So, saying it's directly unproductive seems reasonable.
PS: I would suggest flat out banning it from your meetings. If you want to get your point across send a document with your presentation in it, and then open up the meeting for question and answers about that document. Another huge win is to ban 1 hour meetings 30 minutes or the whole day is fine, but 1 hour blocks tend to become a wasteful default.
Totally agree. Please stop me if I ever do that. Those other kind of SIGINT programs, the ones that attempt to collect every single email and phone call and GPS location and internet search in my life and store it indefinitely, are a little more of a direct comparison though, don't you think?
> Efficiency is universal.
Efficiency is actually fairly hard to come by I think. It's terribly designed presentations with bad clip art, illegible diagrams, and meaningless and redundant process slides that seem to be universal as far as I can tell.