Have tape measure, will travel.

Data mining

I’m a measurer.

I worked as a metrologist for a number of years, I prefer my data quantitative, and the chapter I was most excited to write in my Tools book covers society’s history of—and reliance on—standardized measurement¹. At a 2016 talent show my skill was visually measuring things to a surprising degree of accuracy. It mildly impressed, which is p…