A lecture series  ·  September 2026

Every deck opens on
one sentence and one lit word.

And one quiet line underneath it, which arrives on the first click so the room reads the title before it reads anything else.

what we are answering today

Four questions,
and nothing else.

01
What is it

One line under each, no more. The room is listening to you, not reading the wall.

02
Where it came from

A question is easier to hold in the head than a topic.

03
What it cannot do

Say the limit out loud, early.

04
What it means for us

The last one is always the one they came for.

1966  ·  an example

Draw the thing.
Do not screenshot it.

A drawn window can be pointed at, coloured to match the deck, and never goes blurry on the projector.

an interface, drawn in the slide
and the line that answers, which arrives on its own click
Every factual claim carries its source and its date, on the slide itself.
the morph

Nothing jumps.
Things move over to make room.

first

It starts alone

At the width it will still be when the other two are here.

second

Then it has company

The first card slides left. It does not shrink, and it does not blink into a new place.

third

And the set is complete

Three is the most a room will hold. Four is a table, not a slide.

two act

Say it first.
Then show the number.

What the two of them scored
Direct labels on the bars. Never a number on every point.
The machineThe people
The machine
86%
The peoplefive of them
64%
Replace with the real study, the real year, and a link.
a curve

A line should
draw itself once.

Not loop. It runs as the slide opens, ends, and stays where it ended.

Axis labels at the two ends only. The shape is the point, not the readings.
nested sets

When one thing
lives inside another.

Outermost first, then in. Four rings is the limit before the middle is unreadable.

The whole field
A part of it
A part of that
The bit
they know
a sequence

Four stages,
one click each.

FirstEach one lights as you reach it, and stays lit.
SecondNothing goes dark again behind you.
ThirdThe room can see how far along you are.
FourthAnd where the story is going to end.
0
people, in five days

The number lands first.
Then you say why it is big.

A counting number earns two seconds of silence. Let it finish before you talk.

Source and date go here, every time.
what changed

The way it used to be done was
written out by hand.

Now it is shown examples instead.

Strike the old sentence in front of them, then write the new one underneath. That is a thing happening, not a bullet point.

A quotation is set once, wiped in from the left, and left alone. No animation on the words themselves.

Whoever said it, where, and in what year
Give the real citation, with a link if there is one.
a photograph

Show it when the picture
is the evidence.

Not as a mood image behind a heading. The caption says who or what it is and the year.

Placeholder. The caption goes here, with the year.
Credit the photograph here, and only use images you are allowed to use.
pictures

Four of them, named after they are shown.

Firstwhat it is
Secondwhat it is
Thirdwhat it is
Fourthwhat it is
Ask the room what they are, let them answer, then click to name them.
Chapter two

A dark slide,
so the room feels the turn.

One every five or six slides. Never two in a row.

Thank you

Name, and where to find you.

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