Findings and thingies

Blaise Pascal once quipped “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” Being both factual and concise is the expensive option, not the lazy one. Halving a document means understanding it well enough to know what can be trimmed away. Getting a paragraph down to the pair of sentences that are really key takes judgement, a couple of revisions and, yes, time. And (this is what really annoys me) we still haven’t nailed the art of the concise slide presentation–instead, we’ve now weaponized it to… a nuclear degree.