Lockdown meetings have taught me to compress presentation to 25 minutes total per week, across my group’s three regular meetings.
It’s fantastic because it obviously helps focus the presentation, but also because it’s nudged me into providing the presentation as a PDF at the start of each netting, Amazon style, with a five minute period in which to read the document.
(This in itself is a nice way of gathering attendees. “Here’s the PDF for the meeting” is much less aggressive than ”friendly reminder we have a meeting rn.”)
My only wish would be that AsciiDoctor / PrawnPDF handled PNGs and Pygments faster. 5s is too slow to build a 3 page memo with graphics!
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Providing the deck as a memo is so refreshing.
Lockdown meetings have taught me to compress presentation to 25 minutes total per week, across my group’s three regular meetings.
It’s fantastic because it obviously helps focus the presentation, but also because it’s nudged me into providing the presentation as a PDF at the start of each netting, Amazon style, with a five minute period in which to read the document.
(This in itself is a nice way of gathering attendees. “Here’s the PDF for the meeting” is much less aggressive than ”friendly reminder we have a meeting rn.”)
My only wish would be that AsciiDoctor / PrawnPDF handled PNGs and Pygments faster. 5s is too slow to build a 3 page memo with graphics!