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These [NASA] review boards examined what is probably the best evidence available on PP for technical work: hundreds of PP decks from a high-IQ government agency thoroughly practiced in PP. Both review boards concluded that (1) PowerPoint is an inappropriate tool for engineering reports, presentations, documentation and (2) the technical report is superior to PP. Matched up against alternative tools, PowerPoint loses.

Don’t Make Board Decks

Luke Kanies

Ilya Fushman, who led Kleiner Perkins’ recent series A investment in Welcome, said that prior to 2020 there was no sense of urgency around making events more inclusive for a remote audience.

Virtual Events Came of Age in 2020, but the Future Is Hybrid

Paul Sawers

In recent years some people have become a bit bolder in talking about status, but it seems likely that many of the upheavals in our society are being driven by status resentments and anxieties that we’re still loath to mention explicitly.

Book review: "Status and Culture", by W. David Marx

Noah Smith

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