the taste that hooked me: the next time you have a bunch of json data, csvs or other data - local or remote - and someone wants some charts (for me it was "productivity" metrics from Jira combined with a bunch of other stuff). First it is very easy/fast to load this data; DuckDB has a very liberal parsing engine and good connectors. Second, I used to worry a lot about my table definitions and cleaning data before structuring it. Not anymore! With DuckDB I find myself iteratively transforming data and creating new tables, combining sources, converting columns, slicing/dicing/rotating. It's very easy to "remix" data and there are functions or extensions for everything you might want to do. There's so little friction to get started that I've found it just naturally becomes the multitool in my toolbox.

THis will give you some experience and you'll start to see applicable problem spaces for DuckDB in product areas, especially anything with BI or DW.