There are many, many different technological tools and PowerPoint that are at your disposal to make your slides fancier, glitzy, hear more. Wow. But just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, for example, builds that's when you have a slide. And perhaps there's one sentence, you hit, advanced, another sentence pops up or something else pops up. And it's almost like a teleprompter. For a news anchor.

The problem is you're asking people to sort of look at you go here, go back, go back. Well, it turns it often into a reading experience, which I've already talked about, people don't like to read 2030 4050 feet away. And often I see it as a crutch used by the speaker because they think it's somehow cool too. read a sentence, hit a button, read another sentence. And it's just annoying. I don't have a single shred of evidence that using builds will help your audience understand your messages better.

Or remember your messages. My advice, don't waste your time on builds unless you have an incredibly good reason if you're showing someone their new home that you've designed, and you then want to show how the second floor goes right on top of the first floor, and comes together. Yeah, maybe it makes sense. But that's rare. And that's not how I see builds using it. They're using it as the poor man's poor woman's teleprompter.

And that's awful. Just stick to one idea on the screen that makes the message more understandable and memorable. The other problem with builds is then you do get back to that whole Little Bird at the gas station going boop, boop because you got to constantly advance the screen to get the next element of the bill. And that's quite tedious.