I’m a big fan of putting more time and effort into communication. I just think that there’s an incredible set of decreasing returns after about 30 minutes into

I’m a big fan of putting more time and effort into communication. I just think that there’s an incredible set of decreasing returns after about 30 minutes into building any diagram or presentation, for most people and most use cases. That’s why quick whiteboard or lucidchart or Miro sketches are so powerful - and are designed to communicate in the moment! - and most PowerPoints, swimlane diagrams etc which have tens or hundreds of hours of work are like polished turds. Very few diagrams or presentations show history and almost none are ever updated to show the status of things today. Which means that they just cause confusion. Generally, someone starts again and creates something with new blind spots and which takes about as much time again to create, and is out of date before others see it. Drawing and presenting is mostly interesting if the people who are present for the drawing or description process can go forth and explain, draw or present it in their own words or images, and therefore communication has been achieved; this seems to be very uncommon in most drawing and presentation-heavy environments I’ve been in though.