{"id":1312,"date":"2006-08-18T19:02:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2006-08-18T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:02:13","slug":"slide_show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"Slide Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
I try to avoid doing
\nPowerPoint presentations whenever possible.  They are the crutch of lazy or
\ndisorganized thinkers; possessing either too little or too much information. 
\nBut at many of the conferences I attend, PP has become the de facto tool for
\ngiving presentations and I grudgingly oblige.  When I am forced to use PP, I try
\nto keep the slide content concise and I verbally expound on each point, forcing
\nthe audience to listen to me rather than simply reading the slides. 
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Unfortunately, not
\neveryone shares my wariness of slide presentations.  SecDef Rumsfeld and his
\nlackeys are reported to have a fondness for showing off their alleged PP kung
\nfoo<\/a> and they often used slides to communicate orders and plans to field generals
\nin Iraq.  Here’s one such example<\/a>.  I have no idea what it means and I doubt most soldiers could make sense of it.  Is it any wonder
\nthat a war effort led by people who take more time to generate impressive-looking but indecipherable charts instead of paying attention to the actual facts on the ground has resulted in such an epic clusterfuck? 
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I try to avoid doing PowerPoint presentations whenever possible.  They are the crutch of lazy or disorganized thinkers; possessing either too little or too much information.  But at many of the conferences I attend, PP has become the de facto tool for giving presentations and I grudgingly oblige.  When I am forced to use PP, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-la","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}