Posts by Allen Cheung
Building from the Fountain of Youth
A few months ago, I opined on that hiring not just A-players is a legitimate strategy; the gist was that, for most jobs and business models, "A players" simply were not required for all positions. (and oftentimes, any…
The Right and the Wrong Kind of Recruiters
Maybe it's hiring season, but I had a particularly bad day today fending off tech recruiters. I count: * 4 LinkedIn requests * 2 random emails[1] * 2 3 unsolicited cold calls Sadly, the increasing volume of spam no longer…
Romantizing the Trivial
Everybody loves a good Apple rumor. It seems like for the past few years, predicting what kind of hardware and software big companies will show off is a sport in and of itself, and the industry hypes itself to a…
The Functional Equivalent of a Solo Meeting
Inbox Zero; Getting Things Done; IDEs; Notes and Annotations. These are the tools and techniques that we – the productive, naturally – use to make sense of our busy lives, to squeeze the most out of limited time and focus, and to…
"Growth Hackers" are all Around Us
"Growth hacking" is the hot new software job of 2012. Except that it isn't. Beyond the somewhat forced proclamations by a few bloggers, trying to optimize for growth via combinations of programming, SEO, A/B testing,…
A Dash of Humanities within a World of Science
Having been in the industry now for 8+ years, I learned some time ago that a colleague's school and degree become less relevant over time, that great developers come from all backgrounds, that engineering ability is not correlated…
