I have used some of Tom’s Powerpoint slides and quotes in presentations before and find myself turning the volume down from the fire engine red texts on Batman purple backgrounds and taking off about five exclamation points at the end of every phrase to something which ends up still getting the point across but isn’t screaming at my public. I think times have changed from the super-motivator eighties and nineties to something more conversational (I know the word is being kicked around a lot).

FWIW, I think your posts should be in an even smaller type face and to hell with conventionalism. If people go blind at least you will have been the last thing they read

As far as the point of the post – I am reading Blue Ocean Strategy right now and just that fact that the footnote numbers are so large is really distracting me. I don’t think I could handle reading the Peters book you describe. I actually got that book on audible.com so I got to hear ol’ Tom read it to me (an adventure in its own). And the bigger point resonates so well, though. Don’t do it just to be different. Don’t do it just because you can. Be different, but stay effective. I am the first to admit that I am not good at creating pleasing, innovative design, but I, like most, know it when I see it, and know when I see the opposite.