Just a quick post to highlight an exceptional PowerPoint deck (that I suspect is making the viral rounds) on happiness as the first-principle from which you can create a successful business model. It’s by Tara Hunt, founder of Internet consultancy Citizen Agency, and author of a blog called HorsePigCow.
I like the deck not only because of the psychological first principles from which its drawn, but also because it is an A+ demo of what I’d call “the new PowerPoint” style.
People are so burned out on old-school PowerPoint that I see many people make one of two mistakes: (1) throwing out the baby with the bathwater, dispensing with slides altogether or (2) forgetting that slides are a useful medium for creating “written presentations” — i.e., decks that stand alone, intending to be read / clicked-through and not necessarily as materials to support a live presentation.
