Totally. But today, the room will not be well set up for it, markers may be dry, whiteboard covered in old, settled in diagrams, etc. And half the people dialing in. All solvable, but not in 30 minutes.

And for larger work presentations the expectation even 30 years ago was not whiteboards; that is very inefficient. It was transparencies. But try printing those in a pinch. And finding a projector.

That's not to say that a key tool outage should kill a presentation (and if it was important, do it early); but it is not a do-not-care either.

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clickety_clack a day ago | parent | next [-]

How does any tech company or team operate without whiteboards?

	▲	olyjohn 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft Surface Tables!

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microtonal a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It's much easier to anticipate dry markers (keep a small stock) than outage of Claude or Microsoft.

(Yes, I know that the slippery slope is in jest.)

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officeplant a day ago | parent | next [-]

This is reminding me of a time in school were we thought if we stole all the chalk we might get a day off of Calculus class.

The professor came in and looked around for two minutes before shrugging and pulling a fresh stick of chalk out of his back pocket and began writing on the board.

This is the same professor who we'd never seen use a fresh piece of chalk ever, he always just soldiered through the nubs and remains littering the board's chalk tray.

We had no idea he actually kept a pack of sticks in his back pocket at all times.

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macintux a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Last time I worked in an office I kept my own private stash of markers exactly for that reason.

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em3rgent0rdr a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Magnetic drawing boards are also a thing that last forever.

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rpdillon a day ago | parent [-]

Do you have a way to resolve the issue where the surface becomes degraded and much harder to erase over time? I think it's partly due to wear and tear and partly because people try to clean off the boards with solvents that degrade the surface that is erasable. Is there a way to renew it in some way?

	▲	microtonal a day ago \| parent [-]
		The ones I have usually seen do have some coated steel (presumably because they are cheaper). At home we have a glass whiteboard (tempered glass I think?), which is extremely strong and the surface very smooth.