[DHMO]

Are you a strong believer in putting a caret in front of every point?

I understand the association with up and optimism, but in this document, I think that it could be distracting the reader from the content you are presenting.

Thank you for writing this, though!

[braythwayt]

The carets are part of DeckSet's markdown extensions. This is the source for a presentation, and lines prefaced with a caret are turned into speaker's notes.

I imagine the inspiration for them choosing a caret is that carets are used to signal footnotes in some markdown flavours.