[DougMellon]

I'll also add to this. From my experience in the military, there were often times when the PowerPoint presentations fell victim to over-simplification as individuals omitted important details that were difficult to break down — instead leaning on the talking points that were easier to list.

[Apocryphon]

Found this account recently emphasizing how bonkers military PowerPoint slides can be

https://twitter.com/DefenseCharts

[whalesalad]

My dad was at the Skunk Works and then at Northrop Grumman. I’ve seen wicked PowerPoint slides that animate like a Pixar film. Poor guy was so engrained in the way that he used to send me screenshots via .ppt file (print screen, paste).

[Infernal]

Thanks, I hate it

[drc500free]

My personal experience was as comms flows up a military org, the summarization process at every level is to mechanically convert each slide into a single bullet in the more senior deck. Everything became diluted, and there was no way for a key point to survive from the tactical level up to the flag level.

[FredPret]

But that is inherent in cognition.

We see an incredibly detailed universe, and we simplify it into objects and personalities.

Then we make it more abstract and talk about personalities doing things to objects, and so on up the chain, until we get to “army 1 did this to army 2”.

[unixhero]

And add a satellite to any on the ground architecture.