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by sitkack 4242 days ago
PowerPoint is a NASA (and bureaucratic) symptom. MS delivered what the customer wanted. They want hamburgers not Steak Tartare.

Bad powerpoint didn't stop people from failing to communicate the risks to the Challenger.

> The format reflects a common conceptual error in analytic design: information architectures mimic the hierarchical structure of large bureaucracies pitching the information.

I'd quote more Tufte here but I am too lazy to type it in, the essay is a jpeg.