Posts by Allen Cheung
Hatching Twitter
One of my guilty reading pleasures is tech company biographies. That I'm a part of the industry and can relate to the motivations of founders and early employees is a given; I've followed companies' chronologies…
Cloud Atlas
I'll admit: I picked up the Cloud Atlas novel mostly because the trailer for the movie adaption of the same name looked pretty interesting, a juxtaposition of what seemed like many different places and time periods and themes.…
Best. Autocomplete. Ever.
During a recent role-playing portion of our interview training session at Square, I was trying to come up with a caricature of an interviewing engineer attempting to impress my counterpart across the table. I ended up embellishing upon my starter…
The Hard Thing about Hard Things
There aren't that many good articles on management in a technology company, and even less good books that go into much detail[1]. Square's leadership courses reference High Output Management, written by the president of Intel…
The Cleanliness and Messiness of a Computing Workspace
The design magazine available in Flipboard is a bedtime guilty pleasure. There's something surreal about flipping through the architectural creativity exhibited in many of the living and housing feeds, the condos and homes that are built as showpieces…
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Whiffies. A silly name for a foreboding concept. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a book with a few concepts ahead of its time. It takes place in a time when resources are effectively unlimited[1], where it…
