Posts by Allen Cheung
Productive Enough
I've done my fair share of productivity evangelism over the years. Heck, only a few months ago, I espoused the virtues of establishing personalized workflows; not necessarily because they're universal panaceas to overwhelming information, but more…
Year in Review — 2020
Argh, this year. I'm hardly original in bidding good riddance to a frustrating and challenging year, though the weight of ongoing pandemic is, in a macabre way, a continual reminder for me to be grateful for continued health…
Review: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
What Got You Here Won't Get You There feels like a book written for a past era. The author is an executive coach—an actual one, who regularly takes on Fortune 500 C-level executives as clients, as opposed…
Engineer-centrism
It can be pretty easy for software engineers to get a big head these days. The unique combination of: * Communication, enabled by technology, becoming even more important during a global pandemic; * The most valuable and powerful companies in the world…
The Ceiling and the Floor
I've been mulling over a mental model the past couple of years, expanding on the notion of setting and hitting a singular goal: the idea of optimizing for the ceiling and the floor. It came about from an…
Impressions of the Remarkable 2 Tablet
A year or so ago, I transitioned some of my notetaking to simple pen and paper, on the idea that it's an inherently less distracting medium, and that writing stuff down by hand forces more focus and attention…
