Silent Competence Looks Like Insubordination

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Image: the guy who was the only one with completed tasks on the team

Modern software teams punish invisible competence. They reward noise over completion, presence over outcomes, and when you move faster than their communication rituals can track, your effectiveness looks like insubordination. This is what happens when asymmetric ownership meets a culture that mistakes silence for negligence. […]

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Vernard 2026-Jan-24 00:27

I'm sorry—as much as I love being in Mass 💖the RMV logo looks like it belongs to a preschool centre. 😅

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Vernard 2026-Jan-16 23:23

Haha! They are from here if they can pronounce PEABODY!

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Vernard 2026-Jan-14 21:58

Likes, boosts, and monetisation optimise for reach and dopamine, not credibility or signal. I use social media to leave well-labelled artefacts for the people who already care – recruiters, collaborators, hiring managers. Smaller audience. Higher signal-to-noise.

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Image: meme-fographic: Likes, boosts, and monetisation nonsense Image: meme-fographic: higher signal-to-noise ratio. Image: meme-fographic coherence across work Image: meme-fographic: psychological advantage.
Vernard 2026-Jan-07 20:46

Insightful find about Designing for Children: Your minimalist, 10-pixel-font-size, “Apple”-esque design style won't be very helpful. Use massive touch targets and fonts with a proper single-story 'a' so children can actually read it. https://bit.ly/4jOK29H

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Children are not small adults | Vernard John M. Your minimalist, 10-pixel-font-size, "Apple"-esque design style won't be very helpful. Use massive touch targets and fonts with a proper single-story 'a' so children can actually read it. @linkedin

Product Design: Where UX, Visual Design, and Business meet—or does it?

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Product Design isn’t just a blend of UX, Visual Design, and Business. It’s the tension where trade-offs between all of these are negotiated into something that ships. […]

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