I've Been Collecting Data Without Realizing It
I keep a spreadsheet of every electronics component I’ve bought. Date, price, what project it was for, whether the project actually worked. I started it to track spending, but the other day I realized: that’s a dataset. A messy, human one, but a dataset.
Same with my synth patches — I’ve got notes on what settings produced what sound. Same with game scores, reading lists, even which soldering tips I reach for most. All of it is data I already have, just sitting there being boring in a spreadsheet.