Efficiency and Fragility

So many things we take for granted as “Natural” or “Obvious” are in fact the result of much more subtle processes. From our understanding of Love, Justice or Destiny to how much of a dent we can make in the Universe, many of our assumptions are rather fragile when we take a step back…

Indy, this is an excellent manifesto for Dark Matter Labs! It resonates with me on multiple levels. The changes required to preserve democratic ideals while creating opportunity for populations formerly excluded from the narratives of prosperity require nothing less than a shift in consciousness. I think your observation that letting go of the hero…

Having used Titan, Neo4j and OrientDB — both at work, and on personal projects — over the past 6 months, I’m starting to get a fairly good sense of why graph databases aren’t more widespread (though I do wonder if they’re being used a lot more widely than they’re being talked about).