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When you are taking a new course/learning a new thing what keeps you motivated to continue learning new things? Is it pure curiosity or the fact that you need to learn something to get the job done?

In e-mail based courses I like the fact that I get new content that I should learn until next e-mail. This reminds me od deadlines in Coursera based courses and this creates some kind of obligation in my mind that I try to fulfil.

Only curiosity... My biggest flaw - I don't like learning things I MIGHT need one day... I like to learn things I need NOW
It feels like a good teaser and eye opener into a certain field to me.
It would be cool to have this kind of email course like some intro to the graph world. Maybe graph modelling or graph algorithms :)
Does anyone here know if there is any fundamental difference between memgraph and neo4j? It looks to me like there is roughly feature parity between them, but I am not very familiar with graph databases. As I understand the Cypher language is used by both.
Because Memgraph uses an in-memory storage engine and is implemented in C++ it's faster than Neo4j and more suited for analyzing real-time data, for example from a Kafka data stream. It also provides more support for implementing custom procedures in Python, Rust and C/C++ compared to Neo4j which is only doing Java.
Interesting concept, I really like email courses, so I will give it a try. :)