Jose C Silva
I despair for humanity
This comment about Edward Tufte's presentation at PayPal got my attention. This is what I call presentationism: focussing on the details of the presentation instead of the content.
BTW, ET had just finished a full-day seminar, which is why he was visibly tired at the beginning of the talk. I assume that his slow start is what the commenter called "boring," since the content was exciting: how to think better by reducing clutter.
Once the adrenaline/oxygenation got going, he became more animated, and the Q&A session was fantastic, starting with the ill-advised question "What do you think of Infographics?" to which ET responded [unsurprisingly to his students] "the technical term is they suck!"
I despair for humanity
This comment about Edward Tufte's presentation at PayPal got my attention. This is what I call presentationism: focussing on the details of the presentation instead of the content.
BTW, ET had just finished a full-day seminar, which is why he was visibly tired at the beginning of the talk. I assume that his slow start is what the commenter called "boring," since the content was exciting: how to think better by reducing clutter.
Once the adrenaline/oxygenation got going, he became more animated, and the Q&A session was fantastic, starting with the ill-advised question "What do you think of Infographics?" to which ET responded [unsurprisingly to his students] "the technical term is they suck!"