>> —and they change the way you think, > I am going to pay more attention to this Everyone thinks about things in their own way I suppose, but perhaps a way t

>> —and they change the way you think, > I am going to pay more attention to this Everyone thinks about things in their own way I suppose, but perhaps a way to parse it could be to think about whether you're approaching data from a "load and store" mentality or a "truth and snapshot" mentality. In my mind, unless you wrap the entire programming round trip in a transaction, all data sitting in variables are a snapshot of the past and thus stale by definition.