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Thoughts on PowerPoint

Seth Godin’s blog post, “Really Bad Powerpoint,”[sic] has some information in common with Yale professor emeritus Edward Tufte’s writings about PowerPoint, and I think it likely that Godin used Tufte’s book, Beautiful Evidence (Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT: 2006) as an information source. Godin is kinder in his assessment of PowerPoint than Tufte is. Godin says, […]

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Thoughts on Conversation

The lecture on conversation makes some good points. Most people wait for an opportunity to speak rather than listen to what the other person is saying. People use conversation to show off rather than share information. Showing off, by breaking into a conversation, presenting your views with confidence and even high-jacking another speaker’s views and […]

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