An Observation

It is incredibly valuable to be sober at social functions with drunk or buzzing colleagues and competitors.  I recently attended two such events and because I was driving, I did not imbibe.  During what started as innocuous conversations, it was surprising what people just volunteered about projects and the politics and logistics of working on them.  Of course the next thought was, “Do I do this when I drink at these things?  I should never again drink at these things!”