Ideas Need Timing, Resilience, and Flexibility
Lessons from a food business that ended during the pandemic - and how I carry them into the world of data.
Context
I started a small food business while I was at university. It was an opportunity to test an idea in the real world, not just think about it.
Tension
The business stopped when the pandemic arrived. It was not because the idea was bad or because we did not work hard. The timing had changed, and our structure was not flexible enough to respond.
Lesson
Two lessons have stayed with me. First, resilience is not stubbornness; it is the capacity to adapt without losing direction. Second, reading conditions through data - the market, people's behavior, and costs - is more dependable than relying on feeling alone.
Next
When I eventually entered Business Intelligence, I did not come to numbers as someone encountering them for the first time. I came as someone who had once failed to read the numbers closely enough. That history still shapes how I approach data, decisions, and growth.