{"id":20397,"date":"2010-09-09T06:19:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T10:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20397"},"modified":"2010-09-09T06:19:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T10:19:16","slug":"career-death-by-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20397","title":{"rendered":"Career death by PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve received countless emails in the last week or so about Army Reserve Col. Lawrence Sellin and his subsequent firing over a screed he sent to United Press International disparaging the mindless use of PowerPoint presentations in his shop at the International Joint Command in Afghanistan. You can read the whole complaint at The Army Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Army Times also interviewed Colonel Sellin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t hate PowerPoint. It\u2019s a useful tool,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it can be a crutch as a substitute for thinking. It\u2019s too easy to produce a lot of slides and create volume, not quality. You really think that with a lot of detailed slides that you\u2019re making progress, when you are actually not.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only thing I know about PowerPoint is that’s the format that ConcreteBob uses to send me pictures of hot chicks. And my wife busts me every time. <\/p>\n

But I do know there’s some weird stuff going on in the Army these days – GI Korea from ROK Drop<\/a> wrote to tell us that TAH is blocked from Army computers in Afghanistan because we’re “too political”. I’d like to know what they mean by that. Colonel Sellin was officially punished for not clearing his rant through the PAO before sending it to UPI, so I figure that we’re being blocked for some reason other than being “too political”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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