Posts by Allen Cheung
The Slope of EV Enlightenment
The federal credit for EVs expired at the end of September. Paradoxically, this deadline caused a spike in EV sales—well, for everyone except Tesla, which is still reeling from Elon's antics earlier this year—though prices and…
Review: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
How many books unironically validate their own criticisms? Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) aims to illustrate how people often disavow their mistakes and increasingly justify their poor behavior. In doing so, though—and somehow making it to a…
The Layering of UX Friction
It's a phone upgrade year in my household; I'm grabbing the new iPhone 17 Pro, while my wife is upgrading to a Google Pixel 10, and both of our parents are also in the midst of…
Trust, then Clarify
A theme that I return to on this blog, and throughout my time in people management, is dispelling the notion that leader knows best. It's an expression of the Great Man Theory, that leadership and expertise are imbued…
Aspirational AI Utility
I've been reading Brave New Words. It's a book by Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, on how Generative AI will change the way students learn and teachers teach, leveraging tools like ChatGPT as…
Review: Apple in China
The student has become the master. That was what I was thinking as I was about two-thirds of the way through Apple in China, a book highly recommended by the author of Stratechery as possibly one of the best…
