Lesson learnt today. While reading, I stumbled onto this line: A number tells you nothing unless you know what the number measures. And the thought just crystallized in me. When I was young, I was good with numbers but I didn't internalize them. I didn't love numbers. It's only when I got older that numbers started to make sense. Dates marking the passage of time. Distance run on the treadmill. Beats per minute on a drum & bass track. Tracing values in my customers' systems. Pattern recognition. Length of a pool table. Number of movies watched this year. Decimal places of pi.

Nothing escapes from numbers.