Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: Trillion Dollar Coach
Even executives of the Fortune 500 need coaches, too. And if a number of these companies happen to be in Silicon Valley, at a time when the technology industry is dominating the upper-end of public market capitalizations and valuations,…
The Difference Between Prosumer and Professional
The new Mac Pro is a good reminder of the capabilities, and cost, of professional hardware. In a time when most of the attention in computing has been around miniaturization and portability, the average user—via a smartphone, iPad, or…
Face-Mapping for Custom Glasses
My wife is an optometrist. That means that my lenses prescriptions are always up-to-date, and we have a lot of vision-correcting hardware around the house[1]. While I've worn glasses since high school, they'…
Review: Give and Take
In the world of Adam Grant's Give and Take , people can be divided into roughly 3 camps: * Takers, who look to take from others for their own benefit, or at least see success as a zero-sum game…
MacOS is the Last Bastion of Desktop Software
It took some 30 months, but I'm finally also giving up on my MacBook Pro. Of course, I'm hardly the first to come to this conclusion. This latest design has been roasted in the beginning for…
Home Security at Hardware Cost
A couple of years ago, there was a wave of break-ins in our neighborhood[1]. Appropriately freaked out, I went out and impulse-purchased a Canary home security camera, just before we went out of town for a week.…
