Thinking in powerpoint

FO did a presentation yesterday. I cringe at the thought. He'd sent both me and Arkel a copy beforehand, and I went through and noticed his dyslexic acronyms, misspellings of names, general rambling nature, and started using the notes section to ask questions as feedback. It was only an internal presentation, and FO had an hour or two to correct it, but he was fluttering about behind me, discussing the finer points of where he knew I would disagree within five minutes of my receiving the draft (with a superfluous 'r').
When he presented, the big screen was filled with my corrected version, and he had my notes in his lap. As satisfying as that seems, it makes me feel a little guilty that I contributed to, and somehow endorsed the whole thing.
He and I have very different styles of presenting, as well as speaking. He tends to ramble, with sentences left incomplete, running into each other, having no point or topic, and just giving an impression that something was said. When I ramble, I complete every sentence - and I don't care how long it takes, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of that topic, do it to death, and get to that full-stop. Eventually.
FO thinks in bullet points. His conversations are slides. They have a title, which somehow related to, or is a reminder of, the intended content. The lines seem to go on forever (he likes to pack 20+ lines per slide), and they end abruptly, with smaller and smaller fonts petering out.
I think in sentences and paragraphs. Sometimes my sentences are paragraphs, but that's fine. They are complete within themselves. When I do a presentation, each slide is a few salient points of note to counterbalance what I'm saying - reminders to me and the audience. If you listen to me, and have the points and understand them, you're in. With FO, if you read the slide, then you've missed what he was saying, and that was the important explanation of what should have been put in the slide.
Am I over-using my co-worker as a bad example of presentation practice? Perhaps. It is a common enough mistake, though. Someone who hasn't been a consultant, or hasn't been a teacher or trainer, or had to present to a wide and varied audience will think of a presentation as delivering an argument, or a brain dump. A presentation is really a way of getting people to agree with you, to think like you, to gain from your knowledge and experience, preferably without a great deal of evaluation on their part. People should nod along with you - not falling asleep - and not have creased brows trying to work out what you're trying to say.
A friend of mine used to offer a Mars Bar for the best question after each of his seminars. At so little cost, he got a lot of attention from people who were more often than not just filling in their lunch hour with some brain junkfood.

Life is not a series of slides, it is an essay, an epic, a series, all punctuated as the writer sees fit, not based on how much can be squeezed into a page without it being unreadable from a certain distance by a myopic audience. Life should be savoured, relished, presented well, and the best moments devoured again and again because they take you back to that time, that feeling. Life shouldn't need animation to attract attention, or sounds to distract, because the imagination that is the audience of life can do all of this, and more, if we let it.

Don't think in powerpoint, I say. Think in grandiose sentences that stretch your communications skills and draw the reader into your imagination, your story, your Life.