In [[The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up]] Marie Kondo teaches about the merits of [[Vertical Storage]] (i.e. of clothes). Storing your objects on their sides (i.e. vertically) keeps things from piling up. Piles can go on forever, wheres when you store things horizontally you naturally hit a point where you run out of space. This prevents over-stuffing and forces recognition of [[Enough is Hard to Recognize|enough]]. The **exact same phenomenon happens with document-based communications**. With text, you can go on as long as you have to. Lines "pile up" down the page. You are not *forced* (and sometimes not even incentivized) to be pithy. If you're limited to a set number of slides in a PowerPoint, or you're limited to a single, well-formed [[Diagram Types (index)|Visual]], you are **forced** to be more economic about your message. You only have so much room that can fit in any graphic[^1]. You have to pick and choose what actually *needs* to be there. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words - I say [[A picture is better than 1000 words]]. **** # More ## Source - [[Myself]] [^1]: Unless you commit the mortal sin of creating vertically-scrolling graphics.