Posts by Allen Cheung
Bringing the Technological Hammer Down on Cars
It seems inevitable that cars will be the next victim in the technologicalization of everything™. Tesla has successfully shown incumbant car manufacturers one way to look beyond fossil fuels—though they still have a ways to go to produce profitable…
The Slightly Smart Feature Watch
I have to credit the Apple Watch. Even though I don’t think the current iterations of smartwatches make much sense—low battery life, weak apps, and mostly gaudy[1] and ugly designs—they have made me think about wearing…
The Missing Gap Between College and Self-Taught Programming
Even when I was in school—over a decade ago—there was this tension in the Computer Science department between academia and industry. Everybody knew from the dotcom days that the Computer Science major (along with EECS, and even Applied…
Simple, Accessible Notes
Taking notes on a computer should be the most basic of functionalities: throw up a window that can accept text input, and save the text to a file. Optionally, sync these notes to the cloud, and at that point you…
Reconciling Tech’s Lack of Progress with its Disproportionate Influence
In one of the latest a16z podcasts on role of academia in startups, Marc Andreessen ridicules a seemingly contradictory pair of stances taken by the media as critiques on the tech industry at large: There’s kinda two critiques right…
Using Disruption Precisely
This is yet another awesome a16z podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman! — What Disruption Theory Is … and Isn’t Basically, one of the consultants that actually studied the original theory of disruption is clarifying exactly what the theory is and is…
