Fondly recalling the time I was invited to a rural county in Zhejiang (must have been in 2016) and was up late drinking with the county officials and the professor who brought me along to investigate rural revitalization efforts. Woke up hungover the next morning with the director of county finance (I think) banging on the door of my room. 'Andrew, lets go we need to get going to visit more projects today." Quite a memory!
Interesting take on drinking. I've seen my fair share of bars in major tech company HQs like Microsoft and NVIDIA and also at expo halls in technical conferences where business can get done. Drinking is also done as sort of a team bonding ritual by high performing teams working on challenging problems.
At the same though, I do have the play devils advocate that people can drink as an escape from the stress and burnout at work. Which begs the question: do people drink to escape work to help with work?
Fondly recalling the time I was invited to a rural county in Zhejiang (must have been in 2016) and was up late drinking with the county officials and the professor who brought me along to investigate rural revitalization efforts. Woke up hungover the next morning with the director of county finance (I think) banging on the door of my room. 'Andrew, lets go we need to get going to visit more projects today." Quite a memory!
Interesting take on drinking. I've seen my fair share of bars in major tech company HQs like Microsoft and NVIDIA and also at expo halls in technical conferences where business can get done. Drinking is also done as sort of a team bonding ritual by high performing teams working on challenging problems.
At the same though, I do have the play devils advocate that people can drink as an escape from the stress and burnout at work. Which begs the question: do people drink to escape work to help with work?
Thanks for sharing, I think drinking can play both roles!