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My Name Is Jehad
Personal blog · mynameisjehad.com · on HN as jaffonehdesigncareer
My Name Is Jehad is a personal blog at mynameisjehad.com about design and career. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Making the case to decision makers: the presentation format to follow”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
My thoughts on Design, Product, Leadership, and Management. I am Chief Design Officer at Toast and former Chief Design Officer and Head of Design at Splunk and VMware.
Most-linked posts?
- Making the case to decision makers: the presentation format to follow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-02
What Hacker News says?
The main reason to do a Twitter thread (which the author alludes to but doesn’t look at enough) is audience. Good thoughts can go viral quickly on social media. The same cannot be said for blog posts (even when shared). This could be speaking to a larger issue but still the case. As an example, I published this blog post [1] in November of 2019. It was probably read by hundreds to low thousands in about a year. I th…
Comment linking /making-the-case-to-decision-makers-the-presentation-format-to-follow/
on “Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead”Submitted Most Technical Interviews Suck as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing a Scalable Design Organization as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the case to decision makers: the presentation format to follow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a design system in an engineering-driven company: a few lessons learned as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Your 1:1s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design-led vs. experience-led and why it matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shifting the Mindset on Accessibility in Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning by interviewing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking the code review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook, Fix Your iPhone App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Are More Than 3 Million Job Openings Out There as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The difference between a VP of Design and a VP of anything else as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The shift to subscriptions and its impact on enterprise design teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delegating Work (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool to demo features as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nest: the home automation revolution has started as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does it really need to be there? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Microsoft’s vision? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Quick Thing Facebook Can Do To Help Users Fight Spam as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Google+ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lease everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikipedia, how about showing ads? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project AppBlast is a glimpse at the future of the Post-PC era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Needs To Focus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking the build: lessons learned as a story · 1 points
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