Less Quietly
The Sequel
Less Quietly is the awaited sequel to the author's first non-fiction book, Quiet Brilliance: What Employers Miss About Neurodivergent Talent and How to Finally See It, a critically acclaimed work on cognitive patterning and inclusion in the workplace. In Less Quietly, neurodivergent lawyer and businessman J.M.C. Kane delivers the first book to fuse fresh academic research with real-world business architecture.
Why This Book?
Where Quiet Brilliance was aimed at employers, Less Quietly is targeted squarely for the neurodivergent professionals themselves. While most books about neurodivergence at work dwell on accommodations, awareness campaigns, or mythologies of “superpowers,” Less Quietly offers something different: a blueprint for how neurodivergent professionals can make their value visible without self-caricature, and how organizations can benefit from redesigning the instruments that mismeasure them.
What Differentiates the Two Books?
Less Quietly is the first operator-grade book to fuse the newest population-scale findings on personality drift with a systems playbook for work—authored by a neurodivergent professional who’s already publishing in this space. It translates fresh research into boardroom-ready levers, giving leaders and ERGs the language, artifacts, and policies to make ND strengths visible and to harden their organizations against the smartphone-driven erosion now hitting younger workers.
Street Credibility + Research Rigor
Written by the author of Quiet Brilliance (2024), the book combines the trust of a published voice with the firsthand authority of someone who has lived and worked through the systems under critique. It pulls from respected sources (Deloitte, ACM, LSE, USC) and reframes them for industry, bridging the gap between theory and practice.
Systems-Level Focus
Rather than asking readers to adapt themselves to flawed metrics, the book equips them to influence and redesign the systems themselves—hiring, reviews, feedback loops, and policy. This moves the discourse beyond self-help and into architecture.
An Argument for Less Quietly
Translating Cutting-Edge Research into a Blueprint for Neurodivergent Work
Less Quietly is the first operator-grade book to fuse the newest population-scale findings on personality drift with a systems playbook for work—authored by a neurodivergent professional who’s already publishing in this space. It translates fresh research into boardroom-ready levers, giving leaders and ERGs the language, artifacts, and policies to make ND strengths visible and to harden their organizations against the smartphone-driven erosion now hitting younger workers.
Less Quietly doesn’t argue for louder advocacy. It argues for better instruments. That reframing—neurodivergence as system intelligence rather than cultural difference—is what distinguishes it from every other book in the field.
The argument is both pragmatic and radical: neurodivergent professionals are not anomalies to be managed. They are architects of resilience, clarity, and foresight—if systems can be taught to register their signal.
