Posts by Allen Cheung
Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part IV
Previous entries: Part I, Part II, Part III. This part covers my time at Square, which I also wrote a retrospective about. Bold sentences indicate learnings or insights gleaned. Start with the Unscalable Y Combinator famously gives this advice: work…
The Kinesis Advantage 2
How do you build the successor to the perfect keyboard? Fortunately, we don't have to answer that question, as the OG Kinesis Advantage keyboard was a great, but far-from-perfect keyboard. Released back in 2002, the original…
Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part III
Previous entries: Part I and Part II. I will continue to bold statements which come from that specific work experience. MTV It's testament to Google's technical DNA and stellar reputation that the company remains a very…
Review: How F*cked Up is Your Management?
The title gives it away: How F*cked Up is Your Management is a book tries to tackle management topics from an angle that's purposefully uncomfortable and blunt. The authors pride themselves on being forthcoming and honest in…
Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part II
Part I is available here. As before, I'll bold insights and lessons I've picked up from those experiences. A Scrum in Social Networks I joined Tagged in the beginning of 2008. It billed itself as an…
Software Engineering Salaries Based on Capturing Business Value
I came across this fun article asking whether software engineering salaries exhibit the same bimodal pattern found in other well-paid professional occupations, e.g., doctors and lawyers: Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? Sadly, a glaring lack of data itself…
