Graphs Of Graphs: Mapping Reality, Not Complexity
G3 in the founder's own later vocabulary, applied to permissions.
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Why it is here
The published article on G3 is older and better known; this is the same idea after the vault work, and it is more useful because it is applied rather than defined. Its move is the one the book borrows in chapter 2: the objection that a graph of graphs is too complex mistakes the map for the territory. The complexity is already there, in the business. The graph is what makes it visible.
What it says
- Permissions are an evidence graph, navigated to grant an action.
- Graphs of graphs and ontologies of ontologies underpin the model.
- Each company and division has its own ontologies and graphs.
- This is not complexity, it is the reality of business.
- Agents will find this reality, so the blast radius has to be contained.
Worth re-reading for. Short, and the clearest answer to the most common objection the book will face.
Where this document lands on the site
The document is the peak. Below it hang the concepts measured in its text and the places on this site that rest on it — and the two are different kinds of link, drawn differently: a measured edge is dashed and carries its count, an authored edge is solid. The method is stated in full on the hub.