David Jayatillake - What I wish I knew from the start

If you can, tell us, like, the one thing that you wish you told yourself as you first got into data. What's the one piece of insight that you now know that you wished you'd know from the start? I think this goes for pretty much all engineering and and non and technical roles is you are always doing sales. Right? Then everyone does sales. You just maybe don't realize you're having to do it and you're doing it badly. And that's one thing I tell my younger self is you still need to sell things. You need to sell your dashboards. You need to sell your datasets. You need to sell the project you want to do. You need to sell yourself. You need to sell your ideas. Everything gets sold. And it's like this concept of sales, but sales is also a huge part of sales is storytelling. The Venn diagram between sales and storytelling is hugely overlapped. Yeah. Yeah. And that's you know, you you need that. Otherwise and it's a superpower. If you get if you get really good at that, you can go really far in your career probably further than if you are technically brilliant, to be honest. Love that. You see that. You see these, consultants, who are looking working in our space, in the data space that but they may not actually be very technically gifted. But because they're so good at storytelling and and the sale of it, they do, immensely well.