Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: The Inevitable
Wired launched in 1993. It was a magazine and a website which came about just as modern computing had started to make a difference beyond academia and into everyday life: computers were small and cheap enough to thrive as a…
Donald Trump and the Job Interview Gambit
I ran across this tweet a couple weeks back, on Donald Trump’s platform as he accepted the Republication party’s nomination for the presidency: I can't emphasize enough how crucial it is that the country a candidate…
The Folly of Stack Ranking and Measuring Impact
Recently I came across a brief statement on Facebook about the well-explained evils of stack ranking, with a half-hearted Devil’s Advocate argument about how impact can absolutely be an objective metric, measured and ranked[1]. I still think this…
Communicating a Complex Emotion Through Video Games
The bifurcation of game development into big studios and independent developers has empowered indie developers to try all different types of gameplay. There’s a game simulating border control for a make-believe Eastern Bloc country; a rocket-building game featuring a…
Returning from a Blogging Hiatus
I’m typing this while glancing at my almost exactly, down-to-the-hour 4-week old daughter, as her older brother sleeps a room down with their mother. In the months leading up to this predicament, I’ve received plenty of commentary on…
Review: Fearless Salary Negotiation
America loves itself some self-help and self-improvement. Whether it comes in the form of endless LinkedIn Pulse posts, self-help (and self-promoting) articles on Medium, or the vast industry of self-help books, we are all suckers — myself included — for trying to…
