In a business setting, a PowerPoint slide typically shows 40 words, which is about eight seconds' worth of silent reading material. With so little information per slide, many, many slides are needed.

We suspect that you’ve sat in a meeting that very easily could have been an email instead of that 20-slide presentation ... Some companies even have silent reading time at the beginning of ...

When a group starts their meeting with silent reading ... “You know, [with PowerPoint], senior executives interrupt with questions halfway through the presentation,” explains Bezos.

silent reading requires the same brain regions as listening to someone speak aloud. This means that when a PowerPoint presentation contains too many words, the audience must choose whether to read ...

Instead of reading bullet points on a PowerPoint slide, everyone sits silently for about 30 minutes to read a “six-page memo that’s narratively structured with real sentences, topic sentences ...