Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it.

Jeff Bezos on the amazon 6- page memo written in sentences with 30 minute reading period at beginning, no PowerPoint. I invented this in my 2004 essay: Edward Tufte, “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint”

Jeff Bezos said: “There is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.” Here’s the writing framework Bezos uses (that you can too):