Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: A Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel
The Three-Body Problem is the Chinese science fiction series; it’s a grand romp through a first alien encounter sci-fi trope that gets progressively more epic with each novel, culminating with the fate of the universe and any humans that…
Peak Smartphone
A couple years back, in the midst of the revival of PC hardware—new construction materials, screens, touch interfaces, etc.—, there were a handful of bearish takes which noted that the industry was on its last gasps, that in the…
Evolving Game Storytelling
I just finished the excellent semi-rebooted God of War on the PlayStation 4. The series started out on the PlayStation 2, and tells a classic Greek tragedy where the protagonist, Kratos, is tricked by the (former) Greek god of war…
Review: Secrets of Sand Hill Road
For all the founders and startups and unicorns in Silicon Valley—not to mention the leaky data sieve that is the internet—there's remarkably little public, easily accessible information on how venture capital (VC) works. Term sheets, General…
The Appeal of Mechanical Watches
I got bit by the mechanical watch bug. It started a few years back when I was interested in smartwatches as the next major category in wearable tech. In what turned out to be a subpar cross-ecosystem experience, I had…
Review: Five Dysfunctions of a Team
I've read a good amount of Dan Brown's novels. It's a guilty pleasure in reading; I know that every story features literally the same character, much of the same plot points, dashes of real-world…
