Thanks for posting this Joseph! I wrote this post after a few years as a Data Scientist watching other teams struggle to work with the data my team was producing. SQL is probably the easiest "language" to pick up, but being a good data literate teammate takes more than technical chops. Getting good at finding bugs, writing informative tickets, answering your own questions, and optimizing query performance can go a long way!
this is a great breakdown on the WHY of SQL.
giving clarity as to the what / why of SQL empowers those that don't yet know it how to make better asks for data in their organization.