Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: The Dark Forest
The Dark Forest is the second book in the sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem. I had previously reviewed the first book, so skip this post if you don’t want to be spoiled, or at least readthe previous…
A Weighted Decision List
Sometimes I’m analytical to a fault. Take the traditional pros-cons list. I like the idea, in that listing out the goods and bads of a singular item should make for a more quantified, analytical position. Its criticized, however,…
Cross-Posting to Medium
I’ve enabled the new Wordpress plugin that cross-posts my blog to my Medium profile. It’s my latest attempt to advance my understanding of online publishing and the economics of writing. Previously, I had tried to do a…
A Square Retrospective
It’s been an amazing four years at Square. By the time I write and edit and post this, it will be over a month since I’ve parted ways with the startup. Despite the time off, I haven’t…
Geolocated Breadcrumbs
There’s an under-appreciated feature in iOS9 that reports on the amount of battery used by app over the last week or so[1]. Casually browsing the list one evening, I noticed that the Moves app – seemingly abandoned after…
How Long Will we Keep Typing?
I’ve been playing through an old PC game – The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. It takes one of the campiest light-gun shooters (featuring zombies), and replaces shooting with the Wii-mote with typing out phrases on-screen, where…
