Makis Asimidis

Product Manager @Mitel Tweets both in English & Greek. Views are my own.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

I've consulted. I've advised. I've served on boards. I've done client work. I've written books. I've spoken on the circuit. I've blogged for years.

I have to say, I've found no greater professional joy than working with a tight group of people to ship and support our own products. And for those products to find people willing to trade their own hard earned treasure for a little bit of ours.

Betting on an idea — and seeing it through — is enormously fulfilling. The creative and intellectual stimulation is beyond compare. Especially when you're the first customer for anything you make.

When I was a consultant doing work for hire I thought it was the peak. I got to bounce from client to client, sign big contracts, do a lot of work, cash large checks, etc. But then you realize most of what you do is never implemented. Yes, you got paid for it, but it was just advice, recommendations, and suggestions. Words on pages that were received, but not really read. Designs in files that were delivered, but never really deployed. There was nothing there in the end. You didn't get to make any bets, you just played with someone else's chips.

You thought you were changing things. Changing them. But it wasn't change, it was an exchange. You handed it over, they handed you something in return, and that was that.

I'm glad I went through it, otherwise I wouldn't have known it.

Been giving other people advice for years? Give yourself the advice and see if it's any good. Meet the market.

Go make something. Join a team that's making something. Put your fingerprint on something that won't just sit on the shelf somewhere.

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

Expected a bashing on Public Cloud behemoths but found rather balanced & insightful views on democratization of access to computing resources and the know how to operate your systems

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

Really cool stuff. Whether it will take off before AR glasses can pack this much in an even smaller frame that is less awkward to flaunt, is yet to be seen. But yes, what a time!

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

[VIDEO] The Humane AI pin just launched for $699.

Is this pin going to be the new Apple iPhone?

Idk, but here are 3 big takeaways from the launch:

1. OpenAI/Microsoft will eventually become infra for all tech

Hard to beat them at this rate, they will become AWS for AI

2. AI is gonna make apps (as we know them) a lot less important

Screenless interfaces powered by AI will be connected to apps on the back end and bundled into a subscription service

My Humane subscription will come with Tidal and I will rarely/never need to interface with tidal again

Many consumer products will go from B2C -> B2B

3. Product design is going to look a lot different in 5-10 years

Maybe unrecognizable.

The bottom line is how we are interacting with these devices are changing.

This week we had the GPT store. Agents are the new apps.

Now we have AI pins.

The palm of your hand is your new screen.

Wild times.

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[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

Such a wonderful piece of advice with genuine care for his mentee. This is truly inspiring for how anyone in leadership roles must help people find their path by asking questions, not providing answers

[Neal Parikh @npparikh]

This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

Great summary of what modern product teams are about. Rich points in a relatively small thread

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

I have ranted about the absurdity of the term "full stack engineer" (I mean, show me the web dev who also writes their own device drivers 🙄) but I'd like to recant.

Annoying it may be, but it's the term we've got to describe the most significant shift in eng roles since devops.

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

@mperedim @kurosawa7 Είναι μόλις 5%. Όπως φαίνεται και στο άρθρο απ´ το μακρινό 2019, η φοροδιαφυγή συμπιέζει την κλίμακα των εύκολων θυμάτων και έσπρωξε πολλούς στο εξωτερικό. Η λύση δεν είναι φυσικά να το αποδεχθούμε στωικά σαν το βάτραχο στην κατσαρόλα με το ζεστό νερό https://t.co/paA5a00xtu

[The Greek Analyst @GreekAnalyst]

Greek engineering teams tapping into local talent have become a key driving force for many global tech companies. No wonder we see increasingly more tech giants building new hubs in the country.

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

Atos Public safety is pioneering in defining NextGen Emergency calling. Here's a short summary of what this entails https://t.co/6HkjZanmvZ

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

This comes after years of arduous efforts across the company. I am especially proud though of our #AtosGreece software development team in @AtosUnify for launching our product with one of the most esteemed organisations in North America. https://t.co/SUCKZbqEW2

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

@HellenicEye Yes in the sense that most Greek companies are SME and have not scaled due to market size & inefficiencies. Not in the sense of when they were founded

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

@alexalexakis And in the UAV space there's @ALTUSLSA who are the integrators in the recent purchase of unmanned helicopters for the Hellenic Navy

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

@alexalexakis A small Greek company https://t.co/QnVH0y1pUX is the coordinator of an EU funded research program https://t.co/uaQNrmFvuV for the development of Unmanned Semi-fixed Sea Platforms for Maritime Surveillance

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The most overlooked technology for raising productivity might be “good management.”

It is a key source of US business success. 11,000 interviews in 34 countries shows that over 30% of the productivity advantage of US firms comes from better management. https://t.co/19hcAvDzhe

[Catalin @catalinmpit]

The longer I work in tech, the more I realize that writing the code is rarely the hard part.

[Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo @elisabethmalom1]

My exclusive: A #Greek defense startup is proposing new autonomous surveillance tower, “Outpost,” to improve monitoring of remote islands. It can track UAVs, persons, vessels, vehicles and smoke piles. Ongoing field trials with first pilot customers.
https://t.co/PKxsxO5xc7

[Makis Asimidis @aasimid]

@ZahosC @PanosJee @elisabethmalom1 As its name implies it’s intended as a much more efficient alternative to a manned outpost; in an infinitely more networked environment where sensor fusion at scale and AI-assisted situational awareness building and decision-taking will be key. Mostly in crises and pre-conflict