Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: If You Want to Write
Off of the glowing recommendation in Wise Guy that this is the book to read if you aspire to be an author, I took a quick read of Brenda Ueland's most famous publication If You Want to Write.…
How Much Engineering Side Projects Help with Engineering Careers
Professional software engineers sometimes have side projects. One of the uniquely empowering aspects of writing software for a living is that you can build software yourself, in your own spare time and at extremely low cost, and that your work…
Basking in their First Finished Game
The game was Pikuniku. It's a pretty silly indie game. The art style is simple to the point where it feels like it was drawn by kindergarteners; the gameplay is loose and forgiving; and the story and dialogue…
Review: An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
One nice benefit of not having any job lined up is that there is more time, outside of household chores and virtual schooling, to read and listen to podcasts, catching up with my backlog of to-be-consumed media. It's…
Toolin' for Reducin' Cognitive Overhead
Productivity and self-help is a pretty major literary genre, both in blog post form as well as published books and articles. Over the years, I've written numerous times about various systems I put together to make myself productive:…
Review: In Defense of Elitism
After Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and through the duration of his first term as the US President, there have been, by my estimation, at least two new types of literature that have gotten popular, usually in the form…
