If you’re seeing this interview draft, it means you’ve recently published on HackerNoon a story that the community found interesting and/or valuable. For this reason, we would like to help the community get to know you better as well as find out some writing tips from you.
While this template is automatic, our interest in the answers below is genuine and our human editors (and some cyborg wannabes) will review it before publishing.
So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests.
I'm George Anadiotis, and I'm an Orchestrator, Analyst, Consultant, Engineer, Founder, Host, Researcher, and Writer. I’ve Got Tech, Data, AI, and Media, and I’m not afraid to use them.
Coming from a Computer Science background, I’ve had the chance to learn to play multiple instruments on the way to becoming a one-man band and an orchestrator.
To learn more about what I do, you can check out my brand - Linked Data Orchestration.
Interesting! What was your latest Hackernoon Top story about?
My latest Hackernoon Top Story was what I'd call a memoir of the last few months, blending my personal experiences with what has been going on in the tech scene with the explosion of generative AI.
As someone who has been researching, using, and writing about AI for a long time, there were many touch points I wanted to share.
Do you usually write on similar topics? If not, what do you usually write about?
My stories are about Tech, Data, AI, and Media and how they flow into each other shaping our lives.
I focus on the connection between data, analytics, data science, graphs, machine learning, and AI. Ι also write more broadly on innovation and technology and their impact on business and society.
Great! What is your usual writing routine like (if you have one?)
It depends on the context, but there are some things in common. One of these is keeping on top of things.
If it's something I'm writing on my own initiative, I just get the spark, get my text together, add some images and links, let it sip for a while, and then publish.
If it's something I'm writing for a publication, there is some pitching involved as well. Both to me from PRs and from me to editors. And there's more editing involved too.
Oftentimes, there is expert commentary or interviews involved too. In that case, there are more steps - preparing outlines/Qs, having conversations, transcription, publishing on my podcast, etc.
Being a writer in tech can be a challenge. It’s not often our main role, but an addition to another one. What is the biggest challenge you have when it comes to writing?
I think there are always going to be new challenges, so if you're in this space you won't get bored easily.
For me, the biggest challenge used to be getting across, as in making complex tech approachable by as many people as possible.
I think the biggest challenge still is getting across, but now it's more about the signal-to-noise ratio: Generative AI is already having a big impact on the quantity and quality of content out there. Guess which one is going which way.
What is the next thing you hope to achieve in your career?
I've been in tech my entire life. If there's one thing I'm aspiring to do is to get people to be more critical of tech and less reliant on it. Less digital and more analog.
I'm also writing the first book on Personal Knowledge Graphs which will be out soon.
Wow, that’s admirable. Now, something more casual: What is your guilty pleasure of choice?
I’m the proud owner of some pleasures some people might feel guilty about. Not me.
Do you have a non-tech-related hobby? If yes, what is it?
The boundaries between tech and non-tech are getting blurred, but I'd like to think that pretty much all of my hobbies are non-tech-related: playing basketball, cycling, running, djing, gardening..and the list goes on,
What can the Hacker Noon community expect to read from you next?
I have some pieces in the pipeline:
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On the latest developments in AI (the Pause, x.ai, and whether “scale is all you need“)
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On my “What’s New in AI” work with O’Reilly, and
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On writing the Personal Knowledge Graph book.
What’s your opinion on HackerNoon as a platform for writers?
It has a nice hobbyist feeling to it, and I mean that in a good way. And the people here have shown my work some love which I very much appreciate.
Thanks for taking time to join our “Meet the writer” series. It was a pleasure. Do you have any closing words?
Yes: less digital, more analog. Also, thanks for the opportunity.