Matt Bevan

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This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wabakal and Gadigal people.

When you work in the news, you see a lot of things that give you nightmares.

But there's one image that stays with me.

It's the worst PowerPoint slide in human history.

It looks like a plate of spaghetti and meatballs with hundreds of lines connecting every meatball heading.

It was this incredibly complicated PowerPoint chart.

It was produced by the US military in 2010 to illustrate the difficulties they were facing during the war in Afghanistan.

When the public got a hold of it, it became a case study for how not to do PowerPoint.

This is an actual slide of the Afghanistan strategy last year and it was prepared by the staff to General Stanley McChrystal.

This is a New York Times article.

We have met the enemy and here's PowerPoint.

Even the head of US forces at the time, General Stanley McChrystal, knew immediately how bad the slide was.

When the staff brought this to McChrystal, this PowerPoint slide, he said, when we understand that slide, we will have won the war.

At the time, the US military's overuse of PowerPoint was an easy punchline for commanders when they were giving public speeches.

says in there that it is the inalienable right of every four-star army general to use PowerPoint slides when communicating.

Marine Corps General James Mattis was fond of saying, PowerPoint makes us dumb.