Quoting myself from a work meeting this morning:
"let me suggest the KISSS principle: Keep it Simple and Stupid and Shippable"
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"Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -commonly misattributed to Albert Einstein
"Everything should be as simple as possible. Yes, simpler than that. Simpler than that too. Nope you can still make it simpler! A little more... okay still too complex but I can live with it." -me at work
lol, remembering I gave a talk at Webstock years ago called "Don't Make Stuff"
I gave the presentation in HyperCard using stock HyperCard clip art. This slide aged well!
@darius
thanks darius! and thanks bill atkinson!
#hypercard was MAGIC! 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson
@darius Not quite the same but I did one where as a metaphor I recast WordPress to be like HyperCard
my perhaps belabored point in running hypercard live was: you can use software from 1988 to give a big presentation to ~1000+ people! Like, look I am doing it right here! You literally do not even need Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 levels of tech to give a good talk!
I probably should have done it by writing in pen on index cards and blowing it up but I was also having a HyperCard hyperfixation at the time so, yeah
I have given presentations at work where I just sketch the whole thing out in my trusty Field Notes notebook, take photos of each page with my phone, and then present the photos as a slide show
@darius I used to manage a team remotely, and my solution to the lack of a white board was periodically to grab blank paper and a Sharpie, draw whatever wireframe or data model, and fax it to that office (my direct report on the other end sat next to the fax machine, which helped this workflow quite a bit).
the only time you need fucking Canva or whatever is if you are presenting to someone who is dazzled by that kind of thing. and if you are in that situation: I feel for you, sorry you're having that problem
but if you're in a org that values communication. consider just doing the thing
@darius @grrrr_shark I watched a TED talk this week on how presenting with handmade drawings draws in the audience because you lower the barrier to participate. It was interesting.
@darius @marieverdeil and i recently gave a talk half of which was just a webcam pointing at a table full of objects that we fiddled with while talking. some people in the room thought it was revolutionary lol - funny how impressed people are when you do anything other than keynote/powerpoint slides
@darius My favorite thing lately for work presos is to just throw a markdown file together with a few screenshots or funny pictures and present from Obsidian.
Maybe also show a few browser tabs. Also literal handwaving.
The Field Notes thing is great, though I've never been able to sketch very well
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