'typo' is enjoying a pretty broad definition it seems.
And of course nothing beats typos in a typo rant.
This all from one (me, dig space) who can barely spell and routinely butchers any semblance of comma conventions.
That's were dots come in .... one can simply relay bursts of thought ... the obligation to put it together gracefully ceded to the reader.
Celine, Death on the Installment Plan, staccato to the point of one needing a timer when reading to let the virtual voice in their head take a breath.
Works for me.
But SKS? It'd be great if the grammatical stuff was cleared up ... and just slide continuity format selection ... I really only hung hard on a few things:
"Improving usability by transitioning training of the
user to policy"
"Always encrypted so solid state is protected"
And 3. : Stop using its and it's unless you have a plan. It's just not going well.
It is true that what could be a pretty slick presentation is mired in amateurism. It's like the sort of thing I might come up with. One would like to think that folks take such products to their peer group, do a dry run (this is not a lot of time) get some feed back (surely there is a grammarian at Wave) and tighten the thing up (and correct the plain errors).
It is just very very messy, IMO. The shame is that the underlying structure is very viable. It really just needs some cleaning up. It would help the reader AND help SKS in his delivery if the thing had simply passed through the hands of let's say a graduate student in pretty much any field for say half an hour.
The number of people I know who could triple the value of that presentation in 2 hours for 2 hundred bucks is amazing.
I've had over-perfumed Realtors clean things up better.
But in the end, I am admittedly a presentation snob. I like clean, tight, perfect presentations. A great talk is a great talk. Wave's stuff always strikes me as enthusiastic but too busy elsewhere to actually do it right. So self-confident they do not really self-critique. It gives the impression Wave is not a collaborative environment at all. Crap like that does not come out of collaborative environments.
Did ANYBODY else at Wave see these slides? ANYBODY? I mean it ... ANYBODY? I just don't think I could randomly grab any 5 people I know and not have any of them improve this thing a fair bit. A preschool teacher, a fitness instructor, an architect, a chemist, a social worker ... all would improve it meaningfully in 30 minutes. That is saying something.
SKS goes home, plops down in his home office, cranks this out and runs with it. That is what it looks like. Its no big deal, but if one can do better, shouldn't they?
If I had shown those slides in high school, an out of field drama teacher would at least cleaned up basic grammar (and done so in 10 minutes).
Hopefully they are only talking to engineers. There are no doubt a few that think it was nothing but pure genius.
In the end it really smacks of the whole enterprise beginning and ending with SKS. If he shared anything with anybody certainly they would have pointed some things out, no?
It's like an episode of "The Office" ... the Michael character has to hide under the desk to pull off things like this ... any air, any light and it gets improved ... it takes a deliberate conspiracy to shelter his content from improvement.
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