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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE VERSION OF ME IN POWERPOINT
The PowerPoint version of us is unusually coherent. Real life stubbornly refuses the same formatting.
Slide me has a strategy, three pillars and a roadmap. Actual me has a half-formed opinion and a strong preference for lunch.
The deck is not lying, exactly. It is grammar. It takes a messy year and gives it bullet points and a direction of travel.
The trouble starts when you begin quoting the deck to yourself.