Posts by Allen Cheung
Smartwatches as Glorified Fitness Trackers
I temporarily ditched my Withings hybrid watch for a slightly smarter cousin. My curiosity got the better of me; I knew that a hybrid smartwatch could represent the best of both worlds, but I imagined how a second screen on…
Review: The Manager’s Path
I forget who mentioned The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change to me as an interesting book to pick up, but I do remember thinking that it sounded like the perfect guide to software…
Impressions of the Switch, Three Months Later
The Switch is my first Nintendo console since the SNES. Having missed all the great Nintendo franchises in the past decade or so, I've been excited to wait for the updates the classics, and so far, The Legend…
Review: The Upstarts
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World is a journalist's take on how Uber and Airbnb came to exist. These two startups are two of the biggest…
Revisiting the Square IPO
Unicorns are overvalued.The general trend was obvious for a while: the emergence a glut of companies just clearing the $1 billion valuation mark with special conditions, funds downgrading or writing off their private company shares, and a run tech…
Review: Arkwright
I've been on a sci-fi reading binge lately, and between the likes of Seveneves and the Three-Body Problem trilogy, I've had a good dosage of high-flying, civilization-wide stories that tickles the imagination.…
