Posts by Allen Cheung
Raising Readers in the Digital Age
I still remember my grade school years. Immigrating to North America and enrolled in English-as-Second-Language (ESL) classes in Canada, I felt accomplished to just keep up with reading assignments, not realizing that they were greatly simplified for…
Review: Minesweeper
Before the advent of smartphones, or widespread internet connectivity, the primary role of a PC was for personal and professional productivity. In the Windows 3.1/95 era, my memories of the main "apps"[1] installed on our…
Through the Looking Glass
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of these technologies we keep returning to. The sheer science-fiction ness of wearing a computer on our faces, augmenting what we see around us with information gleaned from a combination of sight and sound…
Founder Mode Rationalization
It's been some months since Paul Graham published his essay on "Founder Mode": the idea that there are times when founders should exercise their authority to orient a company's direction, and, for the lack…
Prosumers Skew Expectations
Well, it keeps on happening. The Browser Company, the entity behind the innovative browser Arc, announced that they are "slowing down" the development of their flagship browser, and redirecting their team towards something completely new designed for mainstream…
Machine Learning the Ropes of Intuition
We tend to romanticize the manual past in our inexorable march of technological progress and automation. Artisanal craft over factory assembly lines. Personalized service over generic interactions. Professional piano tuner over…whatever apps would help tweak instruments' efficacies in…
