The Kindness of Wine + Data
Let me take a moment to acknowledge that some of you may be reading our newsletter this week while on vacation or holidays. Thank you for continuing to read, even so!
It seems like a good opportunity to take a break, too, from our “regularly scheduled programming” on Enolytics 101 and hover for a moment instead over something that isn’t referenced very much in the wine + data space.
That something is kindness.
Maybe kindness is on my mind this week because I’m responding so strongly to a noticeable shift of (do I dare to say it…?) optimism among colleagues and friends. Do you sense it too? I don’t want to go overboard here or jinx anything, but between the change in season (which means warmer weather for those of us in the northern hemisphere) and the brightest light so far of any light-at-the-end-of-the-pandemic-tunnel, it might be safe to say that things are looking up.
The other reason that kindness is on my mind this week is that I’ve noticed wine + data colleagues and friends being, well, kind. Some of you have done the favor of taking a last-minute call even though it was inconvenient in your schedule. Some of you have reconnected with prior co-workers in order to “connect the dots” with new teammates. Some of you have shared news and opportunities in thoughtful and unexpected ways. Some of you have given an hour or two of your time to coach a mentee, and cleared away a few obstacles for them while you were at it.
I could go on, but you get the idea. And you know who you are.
Acts of kindness are precious and valuable any time, but moreso right now as we are all slowly emerging from our individual experiences of the pandemic’s adversity, stress and trauma.
Colleagues and friends in the wine space, I see you being kind to one another.
Colleagues and friends in the data space, I also see you being kind to one another.
When wine + data colleagues and friends overlap in their acts of kindness, it reads as a Venn diagram of hope for the road ahead.
I’m grateful to be sharing that road with you.
Thank you for reading, and for your kindness.