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by lucumo 376 days ago
Wait. I'm unclear what your point is.

Is it that asking for a copy is an unreasonable burden that should require a significant time investment from me?

I've sent many copies of many things I made in my live. It's not so bad. And it's easily shared with many people at once.

Or is it that people can't ingest any meaningful information in less than an hour?

That's clearly not true either. A five minute article can contain extremely valuable insights. A 30 second conversation even more so.
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maccard 376 days ago
The slices of a good presentation are worthless without the presentation itself. If the deck is valuable in and of itself, it could have just been an email or word doc in the first place.
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lucumo 375 days ago
Well, it's not the reality of most slides I've seen. Most of them seem to be a pretty good summary of the talk. Weirdly, some of them contain more information than the talk.

I do believe most presentations I've seen could've been an email or an article. So I guess I agree with you?

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maccard 375 days ago
> I do believe most presentations I've seen could've been an email or an article. So I guess I agree with you?

Yeah, I really should have said that in my original post. Most presentations could have been a one pager, and any presentation worth sitting through the slides aren't worth having.

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freeone3000 376 days ago
My company records all presentations: it’s like sharing the slides, but better, since we just have the entire presentation again.
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lucumo 375 days ago
Always recording is a good practice I think. It's so cheap with video conferencing that you might as well. Even if nobody uses it later, it didn't cost much. And if you get that one presentation that provides stellar value it's a gift that keeps on giving.

I don't really agree that a recording is always better than the slides. Slides are a text medium, and as such can be searched. You can also go through them much, much faster than through a recording (even if you can listen at 2x). If you're just looking for something specific, slides can be much better.

And sometimes you need to get the whole experience. And then the recording is much better.

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