Posts by Allen Cheung
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…
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…
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…
