Data people love solving problems. We can dig through a mess to find gold no one knew was there, build a complex pipeline that pulls data from 100 sources, or build a fancy model that predicts the future. All of that can quickly fall flat once it reaches the hands of our stakeholders. Too many assumptions were made that everyone is speaking from a common place and language. Let's explore the topic of how we can provide basic literacy to increase the adoption of data and related solutions. This is a talk for the builders, champions, and leaders of data.