Fundamentally, I see the big picture as one of taming information. I am inspired by the book Taming Text. I was pointed at that book when I mentioned at an Apache Solr meetup that I was building a platform I called SolrSherlock - a Watson-like agent system - on Solr; the book’s co-author told me his book was available in early access so I bought it. It was clear, concise, and very helpful. I later stopped using Solr and migrated to ElasticSearch, so I renamed the project to be less tech-centric to OpenSherlock.