Posts by Allen Cheung
The Meaning from Work Can Make Early Retirement Tricky
In my own research to better understand personal finances and create financial models to solve for my own needs, I came across the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement within Reddit. As far as I can tell, the main idea…
Impressions of the New iPad Pro
As is the tradition with talking about tablets—or really, just iPads—as professional-grade productivity machines, I'm required by unspoken law to write it out on the iPad itself. Fortunately, my job is made easier with the new…
Review: Principles: Life and Work
Principles. I mean, the title alone—as an important facet of management—is something that I already agree with. For folks looking to step up to higher levels of group management, developing and iterating on mental frameworks and core principles…
The Difficulty in Career Planning
A while ago, an engineer asked me if I could provide advice and guidance for them in planning their own career. Specifically, they wanted something that could be revisited at a regular cadence—monthly, quarterly, annually—with milestones towards some…
The Solution is More than Just Process™
Arstechnica has been around since before the dotcom bust days. As a news, editorial and reviews site for most things computing/technology-related, they have more than earned their credibility for readability but also journalistic depth, particularly in reviewing gadgetry and…
My Persistence of Writing
On my last trip back to my parents' place, my mom gave me what should be the very last pile of stuff they've kept around the house: my report cards from preschool onwards. Turns out, in depressingly…
