Data as Weapon: Sun Tzu on Numbers and Narrative in Your Grant "If you know the data and know yourself, you need not fear a thousand rejections." Look, most founders treat data like vegetables—they know they're supposed to include it, but they have no idea how to make it taste good. Sun Tzu understood something that most grant writers still don't: intelligence isn't about collecting information. It's about  weaponizing it . The Problem with Your Data Let me guess what your grant application looks like: Page 12:  Dense spreadsheet with 47 columns Page 18:  Another table with metrics nobody asked for Page 23:  A chart so complicated it needs its own instruction manual Congrats. You just put the reviewer to sleep. ...