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Title: Transformed my view of presentations...
Review: This is a powerful little booklet which completely transformed the way I think about presentations. Unfortunately, it's also highly repetitive, and stunningly arrogant. The same exact point is made over, and over, and over, and over again. Why? And the arrogance displayed by the author is shocking and unnecessary. For example, the many jabs at Microsoft and other software companies. Tufte should stick to the areas he knows about, and share that knowledge, without venturing into areas he knows nothing about, such as his wide ranging tirade against software companies. It's easy to find plenty of areas in which Tufte could use some education from those very software companies - just try to book a seminar on his web site. It's the worst e-commerce flow I've ever seen. All of that notwithstanding, the booklet has still had a significant and highly positive change in the way I will think about and prepare presentations, and for that, I give it four stars.
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