Posts by Allen Cheung
Manager's Club Interview
Closing out a personally successful and exciting 2017[1], I did a short interview with Manager's Club on various management topics and advice for new managers or those who are thinking of getting into management. I've…
The Quantitative Value of Advice
When I started this blog some 7 years ago, one of my eventual goals was to parry my newfound online fame[1] eventually into a consultancy. At the time, my biggest achievement was getting hired by Google, and so that…
Review: Change Agent
Technology will move beyond silicon. That's hard to see now: we're in the midst of smartphones and omnipresent screens and Internet-connected everything , all around us. But it feels like there's a natural limit…
Principle of Singular Variability
Change is the only constant. Often misattributed to Heraclitus Dealing with change is an important skill in life. Whether it's your career path, the requirements of your current project, or just something unexpected interrupting your weekend, the prospect…
Review: Dan Brown's Origin
You know what you're getting with a Dan Brown novel. His stories follow a recipe: professor Robert Langdon gets caught up in a devious plot involving some combination of technology and religion, which leads him and an attractive…
Buy vs. Build
My first job was building a Windows program, using an old framework—even at the time, back around 2004–2005—called Microsoft Foundation Classes. It was a thin client, taking UI and UX commands from a custom server framework which…
