## Metadata * URL: [https://benn.substack.com/p/why-do-people-want-to-be-analytics](https://benn.substack.com/p/why-do-people-want-to-be-analytics) * Published Date: 2022-07-01 * Author: [[Benn stancil|Benn Stancil]] ## Highlights >if you look at how many of us act, you have to wonder if we mean what we say—or if our supposed affection for analysis is a romanticized, reflexive belief about ourselves that we stopped thinking about critically years ago. >Many of us have had a latent interest in engineering, and, more cynically, a lurking dissatisfaction with the messier side of analytical roles. >Though data cleaning may not be eighty percent of our job anymore,⁷ we might not be as enamored with the remaining twenty percent as we thought—particularly the portion that asks us to be more of a politician, lawyer, and therapist than a detective or consultant.