Details don't work

This page provides video demonstrations explaining why prioritizing key messages over excessive detail is essential for effective presentations. The videos illustrate how overwhelming audiences with too much information can lead to confusion and disengagement, and offer strategies for simplifying complex topics.

Dakota McCoy

Harvard graduate student in Evolutionary Biology, who discovered a previously unrecognized form of the color black in certain animals. Which is more impactful, the one with details or the one without?  

Julie Skinner Vargas

Ph.D. in Educational Research from the University of Pittsburgh and President of the B.F. Skinner Foundation. Which is more impactful, the one with details or the one without?

Aleksandra Przegalinska

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Technology at Kozminski University, Poland, and a researcher at MIT. Which is more impactful, the one with details or the one without?