[Sigia-l] Smackdown: Edward Tufte vs. Don Norman

[Karl Fast]

> > So bullets are *harder* to write than sentences and paragraphs?
> 
> Infinitely. [1]

So, writing my dissertation should be easy, relatively speaking.

Writing the introduction to the dissertation should be much harder.

Writing the abstract for the dissertation should be painful.

Creating bullet points for a presentation of the dissertation should
be downright, pull-my-fingernails-out, excruciating. And these
bullets should be taken as the best evidence that I have clearly
thought the problem through.


Sorry, but I have never found this to be true (if it is, perhaps I
should submit the bullet points instad of the dissertation itself;
good bullets should be ample evidence).

But the amount of work isn't the issue here--it is what gets
communicated and how well. I have never found that people can gain
more from reading my bullet points than they can from reading, say,
the abstract. And I don't believe this has anything to do with the
quality of my bullets.








-- 
Karl Fast
http://www.livingskies.com/