Posts by Allen Cheung
Five Years of VR Progress
A couple weeks ago, I received an OculusMeta Quest 2 VR headset, courtesy of the team at Plato with their first metaverse, virtual conference. The last time I messed around with VR was borrowing a friend's original, first-…
Bypassing Car Dealerships
Despite being overvalued as a meme stock, Tesla rightfully gets a lot of credit for jostling the car industry from its decades of gradual, incremental improvements and forcing more drastic step function changes. The most obvious is popularizing EVs and…
Rules of the Game
Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion is a book published back in 2006 on the mentality of competing and winning at the highest levels, framed around a trifecta of dorky games: Street Fighter, Chess, and Magic: the Gathering. Of course—…
Textbook Answers
One of the first interview questions I learned to give, as a new grad engineer a couple months out of college, was asking candidates how to detect a cycle in a linked list. I was taught that the "right…
The Intersection of Capability and Opportunity
If you take even a cursory glance at some of the blog posts that I've written here over the years, it's not a surprise that I've thought a fair amount about career ladders, particularly…
Languages
I studied Computer Science in college, but opted to for a degree through the College of Letters & Science, which meant that my core CS classes were augmented with coursework in the humanities: linguistics, rhetoric, music, and the like. I…
