This. I remember the day when I casually asked my cofounder, an amazing storyteller, how his day was.
He answered: „Awesome. I had 8 slides this morning. Now I have three.“
That day, something fundamentally clicked in me.
I learned that day that condensing and sharpening information towards a punchline is real, hard and meaningful work.
Or, as Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.”