One Pager

The reason writing a good 4 page memo is harder than “writing” a 20 page powerpoint is because the narrative structure of a good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what’s more important than what, and how things are related. Powerpoint-style presentations somehow give permission to gloss over ideas, flatten out any sense of relative importance, and ignore the interconnectedness of ideas.3⊕ (Bryan and Carr 2021, chap. 4)

We know that people read complex information at a rough average of three minuts per page, which in turns defines the functional lenght of a written narrative as about six pages for a 60 minute reading.⊕ (Bryan and Carr 2021, chap. 4)

We’ve included two optional sections that may presenters at Amazon have found helpful. The first is to call out one or more key tenets that our prosal relies upon … The second optional section, perhaps more commonly used, is the inclusing of an FAQ⊕ (Bryan and Carr 2021, chap. 4)

When the meeting topic is covered by a narrative, it works best if the entire audience reads the narrative, in the room, at the beginning of the meeting.⊕ (Bryan and Carr 2021, chap. 4)