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Re:Start Presentations on the Second Slide by marginalia_nu on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:44AM (#40681398)
Yeah, the inverted pyramid[1] is almost always a good pattern when conveying important information. Not only do you end up telling people why they should care first, the less interesting stuff ends up at the end, so if you run over time (or someone zones out), they aren't missing much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

Re:Start Presentations on the Second Slide by hackernewds on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:52AM (#40681459)
In practice, this ends up with attendees interrupting with pointless questions that are covered in the next slides
Re:Start Presentations on the Second Slide by anamexis on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:53AM (#40681475)
I think that is an invariant of presentations