Posts by Allen Cheung
The Demise of Lyve
Guess I called it. I just got the email last week that Lyve is shutting down. It started as a somewhat unique proposition around owning your own storage and interface around photos, which eventually had to be sold to a…
Review: Death’s End
Death’s End is the last volume of the The Three Body Problem trilogy. Here are the reviews for thefirst and second book. Spoilers ahead, at least for those books. Well, that escalated quickly. I found myself thinking that a…
Another Year, Another iPhone
Some hold this ritual annually; I manage to only do it every other year. Around midnight on a September evening, a mob of folks huddle around a handful of websites to try to get their hands on the latest and…
Review: Covered Calls Made Easy
A good friend of mine recommended this light reader a couple of weeks ago: Covered Calls Made Easy: Generate Monthly Cash Flow by Selling Options It’s a fairly short book, written and published recently, about how to sell covered…
You Don’t Deserve a House in the Bay Area
Time to check-in on the Bay Area housing crisis in 2016. ... Yep, still as bad as ever. The latest controversy is that, contrary to silly ideas back in 2015 that two working professionals could afford to own a home in…
The Race to Define the Most Important Technology in Cars
I’ve been driving my new Volvo XC90 for two months now. It’s an impressive car; Volvo has done a great job cramming this revision of their flagship SUV with great design and technology. And though I’m secretly…
