Last year, in 2023, Dennis Austin, one of the original developers of Powerpoint passed away. The news made it to the front page on Hacker News, and prompted a lively discussion of the merits of Powerpoint itself. I posted a top-level comment, which itself sparked a lively thread of responses. In this post I will expand and extend my points about Powerpoint in a business settings, after pointing to hard-learned lessons from Edward Tufte and Jeff Bezos.

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