Posts by Allen Cheung
Emergent Tetris
Here's a fun, 2-hour documentary on the 35+ year history of the NES version of Tetris and the community still surrounding it to this day: Tetris is hardly a complicated game, and an early version like this…
EV Overcapacity
We're well into the bust stretch of the EV boom-bust cycle. The boom portion started just as we eased out of the COVID lockdowns. Tesla had nurtured—almost single-handedly—the market demand for EVs, much to…
The Same Game, Prettier
A tried-and-true way to make more money from the same movie is to re-release it in a new format, for the diehard fans who want to own every single version of a piece of cinema. For a…
Main Character Syndrome
Put yourself in their shoes. It's an idiom taught at a young age[1]; I think I introduced this to my children sometime around kindergarten. Of course, kids have to be reminded—consistently—about explicitly demonstrating empathy, to…
Feedback Void
There is a certain allure to someone who marches to the beat of their own drum. Framed negatively, it's stubbornness or a refusal to heed the warning of others; positively, it's harboring deep conviction and blazing…
Review: Extremely Hardcore
Twitter—as a company, as a business, as a social network—has always taken on outsized importance relative to its stature. Perhaps it's because it's the social network of journalists, but it has more books written…
