Posts by Allen Cheung
Unraveling the Bi-Annual Phone Upgrade Cycle
We have broken away from switching out our phones every other year. It started with feature/dumb mobile phones back in the early 2000s. For whatever reason, American telecom companies went with a subsidy model for phone plans: give away…
A Fancy European Road Trip
My wife and I just got back from a week-long vacation in picturesque Scandinavia. To be honest, it was not one of the destinations either of us ever had on our list of places to list, especially during the…
The Decline of the Cantonese Language
I have a 2-year-old son. He’ll be a second-generation Chinese-American, who — unless our lives completely go sideways for the next two decades — will attend American schools and absorb American culture like any other kid around…
Image Attribution should be Easier
Some time ago, I decided to use Wordpress’s featured image feature. Pairing text with images has long been a blogging strategy, and my thought was that it’d break from the “wall of text” monotony that is typical of…
Software as a Core Competency
Techies like writing about Tesla. Beyond the perhaps oversimplified comparisons to Apple, the company also feels like it’s a disruptive force, one taking on the old establishment of major car companies and their dealership cartels. It embodies the startup…
Friendship Available for Rent
I came across an interesting article on a few lesser known social services in Japan: The Incredibly True Story of Renting a Friend in Tokyo On the surface, it sounds and feels like another “Japanese culture is weird” observation from…
