Work in Summary

There’s a need for the executive summary for long reports, for the ‘dot points’ presented in a slide deck, and even the current phenomenon of book summaries. 

There’s a need for those summaries, and the getting to the point.  I’m all for it.

But we can’t all work in summaries.  We can’t start with, and then only stick with, the dot points and think we understand it deeply. 

Someone has to write the book, write the report, or prepare the input data for the slide deck.

Working in summary should always recognise the effort that came before the dot points.