Posts by Allen Cheung
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…
The Hubris of Front-End Developers
A colleague pointed me to an interesting article by a senior Yahoo front-end engineer. It goes through what companies need to do to hire "great FE engineers", that A developers are attracted by other A players but…
Our Money's Worth
I was listening to the last episode of the This American Life podcast, and they were detailing how a company called Journatic was basically outsourcing newspaper articles to the Philippines. Now, they were previously an under-the-radar content company,…
