I can run this kitchen's numbers down to the last penny, tracking every portion and every scrap. But I became a cook because I loved food, and now I spend more time with spreadsheets than with a knife in my hand. Somewhere along the way the cooking turned into accounting, and I miss it.
More people experience this than they realize.
You can run a kitchen's numbers to the penny, but cooking became accounting and it wears on you.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.