Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: Bad Blood
The meteoric rise and fall of Theranos is fantastical, to the point where reality feels like fiction, and its characters and events seem like the work of an overenthusiastic author. Bad Blood is a book that chronicles the startup, tracing…
How Car Dealerships Get Disintermediated
This past week, Tesla announced that in order to offer their Model 3 at the previously-promised $35k price point, they're taking the radical strategy of shuttering the vast majority of their physical stores, moving all their cars to…
How Many People Do You Manage?
If you’ve been in any sort of management position, you can relate to having to answer this question, time and again. Recruiters; hiring managers; even fellow people managers—it's one of the easiest heuristics to quantify scope…
The Personalities that Make Software Development Suck
Spend any time building software in a professional setting, and there will be patterns that you can see develop, across teams and companies and domains that span reach of software and automation. There are, of course, the office-dwelling archetypes who…
Review: The Expanse Series
The Expanse is a sci-fi series, that started out—and is continuing—as a series of novels but whose story has also been adapted to a television series of the same name. On the literary front, the books are released…
Piles of Past Work Notes
Lists of accomplishments at work are a useful exercise, both for performance reviews in the moment, but also for posterity[1] years after the fact. Through a variety of employers, roles, and even note-taking apps, I’ve compiled a set…
