Don’t Blame PowerPoint! It’s just a vehicle
By Barry Ritholtz - October 27th, 2011, 6:00PM
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
October 27th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Fuck that. I’m sooooooo sick of powepoint and bill gates and MS
October 28th, 2011 at 5:54 am
Fair enough, but we also require licenses to drive cars. We also see the result of giving licenses and Camaros to undereducated nineteen year old boys. And let’s face it, most people drive badly and dangerously. In reality, we should be restricting driving (but can’t because of our crappy public transport system and suburban lifestyle). We should also eliminate the overloaded slides of the road such as Hummers, Ferraris, and Maseratis (sorry, Barry, but they’re wasteful, dangerous, and a sign of the 1%’s disdain for Mother Earth).
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Powerpoint isn’t crappy, people are crappy. Yes, but I am less likely to die from verbal insults than from a hollow-point and less likely to waste my time with a speaker without slides.
October 28th, 2011 at 7:29 am
Powerpoint, where ideas go to die. Yeah, I suppose, it’s really the presenters being lazy and uncreative. But being lazy and uncreative is what drives them to Powerpoint. If they were good presenters, they wouldn’t need Powerpoint at all. It would seem that the main idea the creator of this presentation has is that “good” powerpoint point presentations use small words. In big type. With pretty pictures. On many slides. As if. That’s how. We communicate. Normally.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Sorry to double post (but flogging on PP is worth it), but it occurred to me what was really going on. The style of presentation that this guy is arguing for is to basically make your PP presentations like picture books for children. Got a roomful of executives to talk to? Or kindergarteners? What’s the difference?