It’s the point, not the bullet

It’s good to finally see a slight backlash against the use of the bullet point, made most popular through the software application PowerPoint. Don’t get me started on how I hate hearing the use of PowerPoint as a synonym for presentation.

Too much focus has been placed on the bullet and not the point, which is why you often see a huge list of things with dots in front of them, as if the bullets will somehow make them easier to understand. Somewhere along the road of presentation giving, a dot became the universal symbol for “I can’t figure out a better way to organize this material.”
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