A More Human Approach To Databases
End-user databases are all the buzz these days — Notion, Airtable, Coda, Roam, etc. These products have made it possible for people to model information in a way that feels more natural and intuitive to the way we experience it in our daily lives.
Motivation What is a database? What is sorted information? Administering a Police Department Read/Write Trade-off Query Planning Procedure Cabinet Audit Log Beyond Filing Cabinets Conclusion Motivation End-user databases are all the buzz these days — Notion, Airtable, Coda, Roam, etc. These products have made it possible for people to model information in a way that feels more natural and intuitive to the way we experience it in our daily lives. I love building products like Notion, but building these kinds of products is hard. For two reasons: Most people don't have the technical literacy abo
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