Posts by Allen Cheung
New Gaming Consoles, Like the Old Gaming Consoles
Against all odds, I grabbed a new PlayStation 5 during one of those "in-stock for 30 seconds before we sell out" online mad rushes. It's pretty surreal that, after 6 months of a new console…
Review: Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors is worth, as of this writing, $650 billion. It had this unprecedented run up in market cap and stock price in the past 18 months, for reasons that are still not entirely clear, to now reach a market…
The Management High Road
Oooof. Tech Twitter lit up last week on the drama surrounding Basecamp and their announcement of new company policies, centering around a ban on societal and political discussions on official company forums. For those unfamiliar, Basecamp—the company—makes the…
A Decade of Blogging
A decade ago, as I was sitting at my desk at Google, waiting for blaze[1]to run its suite of testing and compilation tools on my relatively minor commit, I wasn't exactly feeling the excitement of having…
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…
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&…
