Posts by Allen Cheung
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
As it usually happens, what my friend @jackdanger tweets out quickly turns into food for thought, and eventually blog fodder: I’ve noticed that as companies get bigger, small-company managerial norms → big-company exec exceptionalism. Sometimes bigco execs have other things…
Values to Make Decisions
Quick, what are your core values? How about the values of your discipline, your company, your industry? Your…family[1]? If you can actually answer these questions without stopping in your tracks and making the thinking-emoji face 🤔, then you'…
Asian. American?
It’s been really hard to absorb. Think about. Process. And write about, the experience of being an Asian American in the past year. Even before the COVID-related lockdowns began in the United States last March, one of the underreported…
Review: Die with Zero
The title gives away the ending— Die with Zero is a book about maximizing your financial resources, such that there ought to be nary a cent left by the time you move to the farm upstate to hang out with…
COVID, A Year Later
As I'm writing this, it's been a year to the week that America shut down from the pandemic. The combination of restricting European travel, celebrities announcing their COVID susceptibility, and the dramatic postponement of a major…
Balancing Ambition
I saw this post a while back, from an ambitious engineer reflecting on their career thus far and the allocation of time spent in advancing that career versus opting for the comfortable and familiar: How to waste your career, one…
