“The Introvert’s Guide to the Good Life” is Nerdette’s way of helping you enrich and entertain your perhaps-more-than-usual indoors-based life.

This week we talk with Emily Pilloton, author of Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See, about representation, being your own repair person and why she thinks it’s important to put power tools in the hands of young girls.