In every meeting people are not people, they are a conversion rate, a cart-abandonment number, a segment. I caught myself doing it at the store on the weekend, sizing up a real human being like a data point. This job has trained me to see everyone as a percentage, and it is leaking into how I see the world.
More people experience this than they realize.
The work turns people into conversion numbers, and you have started seeing them that way too.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.