https://ohlook.co/ My notes on work, life and everything, jotted down before I forget. en-au Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:03:37 +0000 https://ohlook.co/the-most-abundant-life-form/ https://ohlook.co/the-most-abundant-life-form/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:00:00 +0000 <figure class="shot"><a href="https://ohlook.co/images/the-most-abundant-life-form.png" title="Open full size"><img src="https://ohlook.co/images/the-most-abundant-life-form.png" alt="Chart titled &quot;The slide deck is now the most abundant life form in the known universe.&quot; From 2015 to 2026, the cost to make a deck drifts down, then falls off a cliff around 2023. Decks in existence climb slowly, then shoot up. Decks actually read stay roughly flat along the bottom, then dip after 2023, with &quot;you are here&quot; pointing at the end of that line. Footnote: &quot;Not to scale. Also not wrong.&quot;" width="1200" height="675"></a><figcaption>Tap the chart to open it full size.</figcaption></figure><p>A deck used to cost someone a weekend. That was half the point of it: forty slides, a few still in a colleague&rsquo;s font, told you somebody had sweated over this, even if you only read three. Now a deck costs one sentence typed into a box, so the forty slides prove nothing, except that the box works. Whoever receives it pastes it into another box and asks for the sentence back.</p>