Posts by Allen Cheung
An Involuntary Internet Detox
You know those articles that bloggers come up with periodically, wherein they realize that constant connectivity and FOMO can be toxic so they unplug, for days or weeks at a time, then reflect on how the solitude has enabled some…
Year in Review — 2018
Do you remember, as an adult, when you stopped making a big deal out of your own birthday? For me, it was probably when it was no longer cool to get presents or throw parties that would highlight a birthday,…
Diablo on the Go
Diablo 3 was first released in the spring of 2012. For those who haven't played the games, the Diablo series was really the precursor to modern loot-based action games as well as the joke-turned-to-actual-…
Power User af
It's true what they say about working with other smart people; you end up learning a lot from observing their work and perspective. Early on in my time at Square, a bit of pair programming with a couple…
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…
