Not Everything Needs to Be a Deck

Not everything needs to be a deck.

Over the past two years, I've realized how inefficient decks can be. They have a place for quarterly recaps, complex ideas, or visuals that need storytelling, but most of the asks that come across a desk ("What's the strategy?" "Can I get a quick POV?") don't need slides.

Too often it's a 50/50 split or worse between thinking and building. That's time that could be spent refining the idea, getting faster feedback, and activating sooner.

Short docs instead

Lately, I've been leaning on short docs. They move faster, invite collaboration, and keep the focus on the work, not the polish. A page you can read in three minutes and reply to inline beats twenty slides that took a day to make and get skimmed in a meeting.

The same goes for building. A working prototype someone can click through starts a better conversation than a slide describing it, and it takes about as long to make.

Let's ship thinking, not just slides. The longer version of that argument is speed is not the skill.