As I sat under a tree*, waiting for my wife to complete her exam for the renewal of her driver’s license, my mind wandered all over. My thoughts jumped from the rather inane to the more profound, with the ease of an athlete running the steeplechase. Between the hurdles and…

TED Talks can be addictive. If you watch one, you crave for more, and there are some talks that you are happy to rewatch. On top of my list is Ric Elias’ 3 things I learned while my plane crashed. It has three in its title and that itself is…

The presenter walks up to the front of the room, connects his laptop to the projector, opens PowerPoint. And... The audiences dart their eyes to see how many slides make the pack, and then run it through a crude mental algorithm to predict the length of the presentation. …

The sun has set on 2020. The memories of it will never. 2020 began like a normal year — with plans, aspirations and resolutions. My farewell to 2019 was like any other drop in the ocean — average and predictable. 2020 was planned as a year to bring in more…

The Winchester Mystery House is a monstrosity, I mean a mansion, that resides in San Jose, California. To say that it was built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearm magnate William Winchester, would be incorrect. Construction of the mansion continued to the day she died. When news of her…

Every time I hear (or read) a self-styled storyteller blame slideware about boring presentations, I cringe. I was screaming in frustration this afternoon when I saw yet another “storyteller” blame PowerPoint for boring presentations. Deconstructing the Narrative We have all suffered Death by PowerPoint at some point in our lives and we intuitively…

The year is 2000. A team of economists led by Hal Varian, who is now the chief economist at Google, ventured to measure the amount of information produced every year. The exercise was called How Much Information and it was repeated in 2003. It stated that the amount of information…

“I don’t believe this,” said this visibly irritated voice. “And what are you doing about the payments,” he continued. The obvious question is who was this? I don’t know. I could not help but overhear this man from my mini home office. He happens to be someone who lives in…

Our workshops start with a tone-setting discussion, and in that one of the most common things participants want to learn is how to tell “everything” in a few slides. Some of the other questions, in the same vein, are, “how can I make my presentations crisp,” “ how can I…