I will not build the all-hands deck from blank slides every cycle. The outline goes in Notion. Gamma generates the draft. I edit. Done.
I will not be the team's deck-polisher for men whose presentations i am not credited on. They have access to the same AI presentation tool i do. They can use it.
I will not put four hours into a customer-facing deck that the AE will misrepresent in the meeting. I send the deck and the recording of my own walkthrough as a Loom. The AE has to actually use them.
I will not make the diversity slide for the company all-hands every quarter without naming who is asking and what their actual goals are. If they cannot name a goal, they cannot have a slide.
I will not handle the formatting on cross-functional decks where five teams contribute slides in five different fonts. I send a Gamma template. Everyone fills in their section. Whoever is hosting the meeting collates. I am not the collation function.
I will not stay late on a Sunday night to "polish the deck for tomorrow." If the deck is not ready by Friday at 4pm, the deck is going to ship at the level of polish it has on Friday at 4pm. The ai slide generator gives me a 90% deck in 30 minutes, which means there is no excuse for me to be staying late on it.
I will not be the only person on my team who knows how to use Gamma, Notion, Granola, and Linear together as a workflow. I documented the workflow. The doc is in our team Notion. If you ask me how i made the deck, i am sending you the doc.
I will not perform helpfulness about the slide-tooling ecosystem. I picked the tools that work for me. They might not work for you. I am not your tooling consultant.
I am 39. I have been doing this work for 14 years. Half of it has been on the slide treadmill and i am stepping off.