Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: The Startup of You
The Startup of You is all about mapping the strategies and tactics that make startups – in theory – successful, and apply them to careers. The central tenets revolve around taking moderate amounts of risk, having backup plans, and not being afraid…
In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade
China's economy just officially overtook the United States as the biggest economy in the world[1]. Most saw this passing of the torch as an inevitability; the Chinese government has been laser focused on economic growth, and it…
Year in Review – 2014
I've never tried to write end-of-the-year posts; they tend to be biased towards recent events, and I find it disingenuous to summarize a year's worth of events meaningfully into a small, overarching set…
Go to College
There is a curious rebellion against higher education. I get the sense that it's an overreaction, a correction to the unquestioned emphasis placed onto college over the past few decades. The millennial generation is no longer seeing the…
Solving Human vs. Natural Problems
Sam Altman wrote a short post which questions a premise: Why aren't today's startups more innovative? He notes that society has benefited from the consumer-centric technological focus in the last decade; starting with the smartphone…
White Label Gaming
I've been slogging through My NBA 2k15 on my phone. The game is based on collecting cards to battle other players offline, and its core is identical to that of another game, WWE SuperCard. In fact, they simply…
