Decision-making in writing in the 21st century! Are you serious?

It gets all the more entertaining with video conferencing technology:

Hope that's enough motivation to try something different (doing it in writing). Verbal, meeting-based, decision making may sound as natural as creating a slide deck to make a pitch. And then we see the way Amazon does it. Jeff Bezos explains why:

Well structured, narrative text is what we’re after rather than just text. If someone builds a list of bullet points in word, that would be just as bad as powerpoint.

The reason writing a 4 page memo is harder than “writing” a 20 page powerpoint is because the narrative structure of a good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what’s more important than what, and how things are related.

Powerpoint-style presentations somehow give permission to gloss over ideas, flatten out any sense of relative importance, and ignore the innerconnectedness of ideas.

A similar kind of executive backing is need to move to a culture of deliberating in writing for serious decisions. It may not be easy but it is certainly possible.