Tim Fischer

[James @jamescoder12]

A woman has designed over 4,000 presentations in 11 years first as a management consultant at McKinsey, then as the head of presentation design for 3 Fortune 500 companies.

She's built board decks that moved billion-dollar decisions. She's designed pitch decks that raised $200M in Series B funding. She's watched CEOs rehearse on stages in front of 10,000 people using slides she built at 2 AM the night before.

She told me something most PowerPoint users have never heard:

"PowerPoint is the most powerful visual communication tool most professionals will ever touch and 95% of them use it like a typewriter with a background image. They type bullet points onto a blank slide. They pick a default template. They add a stock photo. They click 'Present.' That's not a presentation. That's a decorated Word document projected onto a wall."

She said PowerPoint has a cinematic animation engine that makes slides look like motion graphics. A built-in AI that designs layouts for you. A presentation coach that listens to your rehearsal and counts every 'um.' A recording studio that turns a deck into a professional video. Real-time subtitle translation in 60+ languages. And a non-linear navigation system that turns a slideshow into an interactive dashboard.

Most people use bullet points, transitions, and clip art.

"People don't make bad presentations because PowerPoint is limited. They make bad presentations because they're using 5% of a tool that was built to be extraordinary."

Here are the 9 things she does that most PowerPoint users have never tried:

[SKI Magazine @skimagonline]

The Break-Even Point for Every Major Ski Pass, Ranked

We crunched the numbers on Ikon, Epic, Indy, Mountain Collective, and Snow Pass to find out exactly how many days you need on the slopes before each one starts saving you money. https://t.co/3KDgbSxLkD

[Master Notes ☿ @MasterNotesX]

Ahora sabrás escoger correctamente los colores de tu ropa.

[VISA Free World @visafreeworld]

🇫🇷 Most first-time visitors experience Paris the wrong way.

They spend hours in crowds, wait in endless lines, and waste time walking between places that could’ve been planned much better.

If I were visiting Paris for the first time today, this is exactly how I’d do it: 🧵👇

[reni @renitaherlan]

My God!! Who invented this?! I really need to thank them for eight lifetimes! 🥹

[The Timeless Traveler 🇺🇸 @TimelessTrvlr]

Most people spend thousands flying to Europe before seeing the extraordinary places closer to home.

Don’t wait until you’re too old to realize what you missed.

Here are 20 places in the United States and Canada to see before you die.... 🧵

[The Main Line @TheMainLinePod]

𝙏𝙝𝙚 2026 𝙊𝙠𝙡𝙖𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙖 𝙎𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤: Legend in the Making!

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Texas Quote of the Day: "I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'"

----- Walt Garrison, former running back for the Dallas Cowboys. Walt was born in Denton and graduated from Lewisville High School, then attended Oklahoma State before joining the cowboys.

Can y'all tell that I'm getting excited about football? 🙂

[Elyra Future Tech @TechElyra]

Google Flights shows you what airlines want you to see.

Claude shows you what they are hiding.
$890 flight.
Paid $97.
$793 saved in 4 minutes flat.

Here are the 7 prompts that made it happen:👇

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Another weird "horse-shoe" thing in politics is the debate about the definition of a mass shooting.

Per everyone from Mother Jones to one of the FBI's most hard-nosed task forces, a mass shooting is a situation where a gunman (1) kills (2) four or more people at once (3) in a public space. This is obviously what everyone thinks of when we think of a MS.

About a decade back, MSNBC, Jacobin, and El Jazeera realized this number could be radically expanded simply by going with an alternative definition such as "shots FIRED at 4+ people, some wounded, anywhere," or "3+ people HIT by gunfire, anywhere."

To their total shock, at least per a few journ-o-listers I have shared an adult beverage with, the entire dissident right immediately jumped on this new definition. Why? Probably because the 70% majority of mass shooters per this new definition are Black (unless we include family eradications by men - still another potential category).

The issue here is that these new allies are, intentionally or not, providing skilled empirical support for the "leftist Jacobin lady" position on gun control. 658 mass shootings annually is a very different animal than 12.

Which frame do you prefer?

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.

He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like.

His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates TVs for a living, walked into his apartment and looked at the screen for 5 seconds.

"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."
He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.

The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.
Here's every setting he changed 🧵

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

A guy paid Netflix $263 last year.

He watched maybe 40 hours of it. Most nights he opened the app, scrolled, found nothing, and closed his laptop.

His sister — she used to work on Netflix's product team — came over for dinner, grabbed his laptop, and spent 15 minutes in Settings.

By the time she was done, his homepage looked nothing like it did an hour before. Trailers stopped auto-blasting. The picture on his TV sharpened. Categories he'd never seen appeared. His "For You" row actually matched what he liked.

He said: "How did I not know any of this existed?"

She said: "Because Netflix doesn't want you to. Every setting I just changed makes the app work better for you and worse for their numbers."

Here's what she did 🧵

[Facts About Texas @FactsAboutTexas]

Palo Duro Canyon is SPECTACULAR 🤠

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This is supposed to happen every year.

Take off those panels and clean that AC off.

You are also supposed to flush your water heater every year to maintain its’ efficiency and prolong its’ lifespan. If you have hard water you may want to do it every 6-9 months.

A lot of people said there is so much to consider, that you are supposed to clean off your refrigerator coils every year too and that there is a filter on some dishwashers that need to be changed as well. Clean out your sewer vent pipe, clean your dryer ducting, clean your gutters. It’s never ending. 🤯

Some said these are the things they should have a manual for homeowners or maybe a class because a good majority of people do not know this information.

Did you know all this? Do you maintain all this yourself or do you have a tech come out and do all this for you?

[Elyra Future Tech @TechElyra]

Google Flights shows you what airlines want you to see.

Claude shows you what they are hiding.
$890 flight.
Paid $97.
$793 saved in 4 minutes flat.

Here are the 7 prompts that made it happen:👇

[Dari Nowkhah @ESPNDari]

I don't care if you're a Sooner or not, this is high-quality, goosebump-inducing work. Well done, whoever put this piece of art together!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"O Botafumeiro" is a 120 kg censer that reaches speeds of 70km/h at a height of 25 meters in the transept of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

[📹 Álvaro de Juana]

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

This experiment is the best reminder that most of what we worry about never actually happens.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How to tie 10 different types of knots

[🪢 eleanorduncan34]

[VintageCountryMusic @realcountry1953]

Here’s the FULL David Allan Coe documentary.

Highly recommended!!!

https://t.co/4ZJTCi6D2c