Posts by Allen Cheung
Life After COVID-19
The drumbeat of unprecedented events come at a daily clip. Disney resorts, for the first time, shut down indefinitely. The stock market, with some of the biggest index drops ever and a place in macroeconomic history books. The highest number…
Functioning Through a Pandemic
As of the first draft of this post, it's been 6 days since my company transitioned most of its workforce into work-from-home arrangements, which was coincidentally the same day that the NBA suspended its entire season…
Luxury User Interfaces
Third-party native software is hard. They tend to offer better UI/UX than web apps and pseudo-web apps living inside of WebViews, and well-designed software tends to require additional work for interface polish. On top of that,…
To Still Carry an Actual Camera
Smartphone cameras are getting very good, very fast. Phones are, of course, nowadays how the vast majority of pictures are taken. I had simple point-and-shoot digital cameras before as well, but eventually upgraded my photography kit when we…
The Engineering Leaders Hired by Startups
It started with a tweet: Agreed, particularly in looking for an external hire, it’s to compliment a missing piece within the current team and more often than not it’s the management piece. — Allen Cheung (@allenmhc) January 23, 2020…
Shadow Systems
There’s the system , and then the system behind the system. I’ve written in the past about how the job of increasingly senior management is really about frameworks and mental models, that a big part of the job is…
