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I do like his blog. But I‘m not going to click through a presentation without him even teasing his core thesis. A tldr would be much appreciated otherwise I wou
by bijant 6y ago
I do like his blog. But I‘m not going to click through a presentation without him even teasing his core thesis. A tldr would be much appreciated otherwise I would prefer if he packaged his (without a doubt) great presentation into an article (he already has all the illustrations)
- ridruejo 6y agoI'd agree in general, but there are a few people that are worth going though whatever presentation they put together. Ben is one of them
- ffhggyh 6y agoI don't understand how you're too lazy to click through a 100-slide slideshow—and yet have the energy write a full paragraph complaining about it here.
- dEnigma 6y agoI can't tell if this sarcasm or not. Clicking through 100 slides takes quite the effort, even if you're just skimming.
- saurik 6y agoYeah. So, I did click through it; it took forever, and was exceedingly annoying. I found myself wanting to go back a few times, and that just not being worth the effort... since I am not the one giving this presentation--which is already a problem... slides exist to support a speaker, and I am not the speaker! either this should be a video or an article, not some disconnected set of slides (from which I can't imagine I am actually getting the connections between the content)--I have absolutely no use for a "one slide at a time" UI: either all 100+ slides of this should be rendered one after another so I can quickly scroll down through it, or (preferably) this shouldn't be a PDF file so I can decide how I scroll.
- ghaff 6y ago>slides exist to support a speaker In principle I agree with you and, for most of the presentations I give, I make the slides available but they're pretty useless. That said, a lot of people find information presented in the form of a slide deck more approachable than a multi-thousand word written report.
- saurik 6y agoI am mostly responding here because I saw a critical typo in my comment I wanted to leave a fix for somewhere: in "shouldn't be a PDF file" I wanted to say it SHOULD be a PDF file, as PDF files are great for supporting both slide scrolling and page-by-page scrolling. That aside, I'll note that if someone wants a slide deck of thoughts somehow, this is still the wrong storage format for this information: having all the slides one after another on the page would provide the same enforced thought clumping while allowing more random access to the content.