Still jaded that went nowhere...

I think it explains the "why" of double entry accounting. Since it is used to track flows of money, a graph representation is a natural representation (just not the only one and not necessarily the most useful for day to day operations).

G+ copied some features and design work the open source federated social media, particularly Diaspora. So yeah, a lot of the features were developed in context of privacy protections.

This would probably depend heavily on how tenure decisions handles publishing. If it is heavily biased towards quantity of publishing, then that won't matter as much as you can "pay to win your paycheck".

If the tenure process focuses on quality of work, then it should work better.