When technology becomes indistinguishable from magic, it’s very easy to get excited, carried away, or even become irrational. Why irrational you might ask? Because when the expectation from any technology or system extends well beyond what is known to be feasible, that is an irrational behaviour. Sadly, as the result of completely unjustified expectations, financing, […]
Growing up in Athens in the 1980s air conditioning was not exactly commonplace. Not in our cars and certainly not at home. We first got air conditioning at my parents’ home in the late 1990s. With very few exceptions during my childhood, we didn’t feel we needed any. Nobody did. Sure, the weather got hot […]
Το περασμένο καλοκαίρι η Ελλάδα βίωσε ίσως τον χειρότερο καύσωνα της τελευταίας σαραντακονταετίας. Παράλληλα με τις ανυπόφορες θερμοκρασίες (που ξεπέρασαν τους 43° κελσίου σε πολλά σημεία της χώρας) η Ελλάδα βρέθηκε αντιμέτωπη με σωρεία πυρκαγιών (και το 2024 προβλέπεται χειρότερο, τουλάχιστον κατά 22%.) Η ελληνική κυβέρνηση ισχυρίζεται πως μεγάλο μέρος αυτών οφείλονταν σε ανθρώπινο παράγοντα, […]
In mid 2020 I took a break from work. I was burnt out and exhausted, both physically and mentally, and —in the midst of Covid 19—I wanted a short break before starting on my new role as CTO of a Blockchain network analytics company. During those couple of months in the Summer of 2020, I […]
Even in the darkest times (for Apple), in the mid to late 1990s, the importance of the Macintosh could not be understated. Today, exactly 40 years to the day, Apple is constantly contending for the top spot in market cap globally, the Mac is far from Apple’s most profitable product, but it’s arguably, still, one […]
Back in 2019, after deciding to leave Beat, I was contemplating starting a new project. It was an ML-based project, informed by my experience at both smaller and larger companies, like Beat: An ML-based Code Reviewer. The idea was that smaller companies, founders aside, seldom have senior engineering talent on board, and the quality of […]