Posts by Allen Cheung
Personal Electric Mobility
Remember the original Segway? When the company initially unveiled it in 2001 for $5,000, it was supposed to be the future of transportation , a self-balancing electric vehicle with a land speed somewhere between walking and biking with no…
The Framework Engineer
I've written about promotions before, particularly in contrasting the differences between prescriptive and descriptive promotions and generally favoring the latter. In quick summary, the former rewards excellence with current responsibilities by showing confidence in a broader assignment, while…
Engaging Ex Nihilo
I'm booooored! We typically hear this from one of our kids within an hour of one of our road trips. Also when they're stuck inside the house because it's raining outside[1]. And once…
Verticalizing the Automotive Industry
Over winter break, we took a road trip from the Bay Area down to Death Valley National Park and the Vegas + LA metro areas for a week. As I traded a gas-powered Volvo XC90 for a Tesla Model X…
Features ↔︎ Tech Debt Tradeoffs
This is a bit of old news at this point, but I can't help but be amused by this retelling of a small part of the ongoing Twitter drama: Geohot wants to “refactor” everything. Elno explains to him…
Breaking Up the Twitter Monolith
As I'm writing this, it's been about 3 months since Elon Musk took Twitter private for $44 billion and started shaping it to his liking. In that short amount of time, I don't think…
