---
id: "quote-boring-battle-tested"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:13:06"]
tags: ["infrastructure", "technology-choices"]
related: ["entity-postgresql"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
sources: ["s22-saas-replacement"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s22-saas-replacement"
originDay: 22
---
# The value of boring technology

## Quote

> *'This is the most boring, battle-tested technology you can imagine. Postgres is not exciting, it's not deprecating, Postgres isn't chasing a growth metric, Postgres isn't VC-backed and needing to hit a billion-dollar unicorn valuation. It's just a standard way of storing data.'*

— [[entity-nate-b-jones]]

## Why It Matters

A design-philosophy quote, justifying the choice of [[entity-postgresql]] as the [[concept-open-brain-d22]] substrate. The implicit argument: long-lived personal infrastructure should be built on technology that *cannot die because it cannot fail to scale or cannot satisfy investors.* Postgres has neither failure mode.

This is in direct opposition to the thin-wrapper startup memory tools critiqued in [[concept-memory-silo-problem]] and the proprietary platform memories critiqued in [[claim-saas-memory-lock-in]]. The most exciting move is the boring one.