Slides Don't Talk
Let me make a seemingly obvious statement: A presentation is a story told by a person to a room full of people. That sentence should be straightforward. It is not. If it were obvious, most presentations would not be walls of text projected onto a screen while a person stands next to them and reads aloud. They would not be documents pretending to be presentations. They would not be decks that work perfectly fine without anyone presenting them — which is another way of saying they do not need a presenter at all. ...