Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: Art of the Good Life
Early on, it wasn't clear that Art of the Good Life was going to be much different than countless other self-help books that promise the nirvana of disproportionate self-driven improvement that eventually leads to, well, the good life.…
Games as a Service
When the Bay Area shelter-in-place order started, there was plenty of online snark about the triviality of the policy: the oncoming pandemic threatened to reshape the world as disruptively as a global war or a historic depressionary market crash, but…
Life After COVID-19
The drumbeat of unprecedented events come at a daily clip. Disney resorts, for the first time, shut down indefinitely. The stock market, with some of the biggest index drops ever and a place in macroeconomic history books. The highest number…
Functioning Through a Pandemic
As of the first draft of this post, it's been 6 days since my company transitioned most of its workforce into work-from-home arrangements, which was coincidentally the same day that the NBA suspended its entire season as one…
Luxury User Interfaces
Third-party native software is hard. They tend to offer better UI/UX than web apps and pseudo-web apps living inside of WebViews, and well-designed software tends to require additional work for interface polish. On top of that, operating systems—mobile…
To Still Carry an Actual Camera
Smartphone cameras are getting very good, very fast. Phones are, of course, nowadays how the vast majority of pictures are taken. I had simple point-and-shoot digital cameras before as well, but eventually upgraded my photography kit when we had our…
