Posts by Allen Cheung
Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part I
A couple of months back, someone asked me about my career in software development and the various lessons along the way. I have relayed individual stories in the past, but I never got around to writing it down in full.…
Review: Artemis
Andy Weir likes his near-future solar system colonization science fiction. With The Martian , his take on sci-fi—light-hearted, yet grounded in real science that's only slightly fantastical and futuristic—meshed into a novel and eventual…
The Bamboo Ceiling in Tech
Bamboo ceiling refers to this phenomenon where Asians—here, defined to be a combination of South Asian (majority Indian), East Asian (majority Chinese, Korean, and Japanese), and Southeast Asian (a more diverse set of countries)—are underrepresented in the higher…
The Limits of Fictional World-Building
In the first scene of the movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , there's a handshake between astronauts—hailing from America and China—as one spaceship docks to a larger space station. Subsequently, as the years…
Review: You Are a Badass at Making Money
I'm not sure why I started reading You're a Badass at Making Money. I mean, I saw someone mention they were reading it on my Twitter feed, and Amazon's reviews as well as Goodreads…
Year in Review — 2017
Man, this has been a rough year for the world. 2016 foreshadowed some of what could happen this year, but a lot of other unexpected shit went down too, mostly for the worse. In contrast, events in my own life…
