Posts by Allen Cheung
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…
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…
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-…
Code is a Cultural Artifact
So I've been accused, more than once, of obsessing over organizational structures. Heck, I just waxed poetically about Conway's Law recently, and that was just after leading a couple of sessions at a conference on, specifically,…
Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The power law. The Pareto Principle. Winner-takes-all. They all recognize an ecosystem where most of the benefits—and profits, as is often the case—accrues to a handful of individual entities, the theory suggesting that this type of…
