I’ve never watched Breaking Bad. Barely heard of it (though, I have heard the lead actor interviewed twice in recent days). But here is an article about how it nearly did not ever get off the ground, by the creator, Vince Gilligan: I Almost Broke Bad: The creator of the award-winning Breaking Bad explains how his show… Read More Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, with the Presentation Tutorial of the Day
(First, a confession. I’m not much of a fan of Powerpoint. I seldom use it (actually, I prefer Keynote), and when I do, it is mostly images, and mostly to introduce my speech/presentation. So, take this as criticism from one who is not a fan). Here is the deal. You should speak to your audience. … Read More Never Speak with your Back to the Audience – One of Three Use-of-Powerpoint Suggestions
(this just struck me as really funny…) (excerpted from The New Yorker – SHOUTS & MURMURS: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S “IMPLEMENTATION” Posted by Gideon Lewis-Kraus). Leonardo DiCaprio takes a taxi to an insidiously nondescript office building. He rides the glass-walled elevator to the eleventh floor, and as he walks past the receptionist we see only the words… Read More “You have 3 minutes to make a PowerPoint presentation that will take me 3 hours to click through”
I wrote this paragraph in this post: A Set of PowerPoint Slides is NOT a “presentation” – a rant: Quick, what do the following “presenters,” John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara Jordan, Ronald Reagan, have in common? They never used PowerPoint in their “presentations.” Now comes this (through Andrew Sullivan, as happens so often):… Read More PowerPoint Run Amuck – (with update from Seth Godin)
It drives me crazy. People refer to a set of PowerPoint slides as “a presentation.” “Can you send me your presentation?” people will ask. Are they crazy?! A presentation is – you know – a person presenting a speech, a talk…, standing up or sitting down and opening his/her mouth and speaking. You know –… Read More A Set of PowerPoint Slides is NOT a “presentation” – a rant
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