Hi, I’m Allen!
I’m a software engineering executive and technology enthusiast based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Having worked for companies big and small, I’m most energized by the dynamic potential of startups, early in their journeys. I’m at my best helping scale teams while up-leveling the people that I work with.
With my wife and two kids, we enjoy the quiet serenity of reading, nearby national parks, and simple crafts. I get overly excited by new gadgetry, and nurture a bad habit of picking up new hobbies. Since 2011, this site has collected my regular, late-night musings.
Generated
Despite my optimism for Generative AI and its floor-raising use cases, we might have already…
Review: Keep Calm and Code On
Keep Calm and Code On is a book that discusses what it takes to develop software…
Reservations Everywhere
Our family took a vacation this summer in Japan. The island nation has always been a popular…
Limited Technology
As an unabashed fan of both e-ink technologies as well as reading, I regularly look for and…
Review: Quantum Supremacy
I went through a theoretical physics phase in high school. Our school only offered the…
Gaming to Engage
Remember when gamification was the technique du jour a decade ago? The software industry…
Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Jigsaw puzzles are an invention of a bygone era. As an entertainment product, it’s…
AI Optimism
When the hype cycle around AI was picking up a few years back, there was this pervasive fear…
Emergent Tetris
Here’s a fun, 2-hour documentary on the 35+ year history of the NES version of Tetris…
EV Overcapacity
We’re well into the bust stretch of the EV boom-bust cycle. The boom portion started…