It kind of is? When I have conversations about this, I encounter the term "object/relational impedance mismatch" a lot more often than I encounter people who r

It kind of is? When I have conversations about this, I encounter the term "object/relational impedance mismatch" a lot more often than I encounter people who really have a thorough understanding of what the term describes and why it exists. It often seems to me like the way it functions in our profession is a lot like the way the word "quantum" functions in Deepak Chopra's vocabulary. It's not really a specific, definable thing, so much as an amorphous, esoteric cosmic principle that can be used as a universal logical connector for stitching together any arbitrary chain of reasoning. Which is too bad. I don't think it's actually a particularly difficult concept, when you get down to it. But I do think that the fancy-sounding technical name for the concept tends to obfuscate its meaning by making it sound like a much bigger deal than it actually is.