It's a particularly galling form of self-gatekeeping, and I say this is as someone who's been practicing data science before it even had a name. I don't need t

It's a particularly galling form of self-gatekeeping, and I say this is as someone who's been practicing data science before it even had a name. I don't need to be an aerospace engineer to use a drone to help my business. I don't need to be an electrical engineer to use an IoT sensor to help my business. And I don't need to be a data scientist to use a bog-simple feature/label based ML/DL model. You can always go deeper later. Start applying it now. As a sort of tangent, it's funny when you have kids. You begin to understand what true fearlessness is. They don't understand the words "limitations" or "missing out" or "reluctant." They just do it, and screw up, a lot, and then find 50 different hacks and workarounds before you can even tell them otherwise. When I was a kid, my dad handed me a book on BASIC and a command line and said, "Good luck." And here we are.