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This issue is about doing the job properly the first time. SimpleDim brings real measurements into PowerPoint, so a warehouse layout or a floor plan on a slide is not just a picture but an actual, to-scale drawing you can trust. Laszlo Diewald’s Dynamic Grid 2 does the same for data: one click refreshes your table straight from SharePoint, so the numbers in the room are always the current numbers, not last week’s. And Ramgopal’s book, Clear Slides, makes the same argument about thinking: organize your ideas before you open PowerPoint, because a clear head makes a clear slide. Three different tools, one simple rule: get it right early, and the rest gets easier.
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Laszlo Diewald has been working as a consultant for more than 10 years now. He started his career as an employee right after his study at the Technical University of Munich. Shortly after, he decided to become self-employed as a freelance consultant. In 2017, he founded his own consultancy, with a focus on large scale projects in the financial sector. In parallel, he started working on presentaid, which was finally launched in April 2022.
In this conversation, Laszlo talks about presentaid’s new Dynamic Grid 2.
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Ramgopal M. S. is the founder of Presentation Process and author of Clear Slides. Over the past 20 years, he has helped millions of professionals communicate complex ideas through clear, engaging presentations. His YouTube channel has over 560,000 subscribers, where he shares practical PowerPoint and presentation design techniques.
In this conversation, Ramgopal discusses his new book, Clear Slides.
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This issue is about what happens when you stop leaving things to chance. The guides tutorial shows how a line on a slide is never just a line: it snaps, it inherits, it governs, and it will quietly run your layout if you let it. Understanding that is the difference between slides that look deliberate and slides that look lucky. Avinash Panneerselvam’s AECharts interview takes the same idea into charting: polished, animated, design-first charts that drop cleanly into any deck without negotiating with PowerPoint’s own chart engine. And Matteo Cassese’s Founder Journey conversation goes further still, asking what it means to move from telling stories to building myths, and whether your presentations belong to a bigger narrative you haven’t named yet.
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Avinash (Avi) Panneerselvam graduated in Computational Engineering from IIT Madras in 2020 and spent the next five years as a data scientist, building prediction models, mostly at early-stage AI startups. As AI began reshaping software engineering, he left my job to build something of his own. He started working on AECharts in January 2026, and launched it in February, when it also got its first customer.
In this conversation, Avi talks about AECharts.
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