Posts by Allen Cheung
Automatable Management
If there’s any truth left to the cliche that middle management adds little more than bureaucracy and communication overhead to an organization, then Slack’s manager bot product should fix that market inefficiency pretty quickly. Status reports and work…
Fashion Choices and the Apple Watch
I just came across this astute article on the current state of Apple and Android smartwatches from FastCompany: Google Could Beat Apple At Fashion—Just Like It Did Phones It gets to the heart of one of the problems with…
Review: The Dip
I read The Dip by Seth Godin because it promised to be a short book on self-improvement. It’s supposed to teach its readers how to decide to follow through on a personal or professional project, right there in…
Video Game Narratives
On the recommendation of many podcasts and some folks I follow on Twitter, I went and finished Firewatch — a new, story-driven game about a guy hanging out in a national park watching for forest fires — in a single sitting.…
Review: Ready Player One
This year is the year of virtual reality. All the headsets launching this year is creating a lot of excitement, but given the price points and the 1.0-nature of these launches, I’m not quite ready to jump…
Modular Agile Development
Are there any real alternatives to agile development in commercial software? There’s waterfall development, which overemphasizes software design in trading off the speed of iteration. It may be appropriate in specific, limited domains where accuracy and bug-free software…
