[simonw]

I think you may have misunderstood what an "annotated presentation" is.

It's not a new way of giving presentations. It's a way of publishing your presentations after you have given them where you turn the slides into a longer form written piece.

So it can't be "not a good way to do a presentation at all", because I give presentations exactly the same as everyone else does! Slides with images and a few words.

What's different is that I take the time to write them up properly afterwards.

Here's my most recent example - in this case it wasn't a whole presentation, just the slide portion from a three hour workshop: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#llm-...

Bunch more examples here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotated-talks/