But a key to success in clandestine operations is sobriety.¹

George Tenet, based on his own words, seems like a fairly disgusting person.

Sobriety is probably the key to most work. I work one bug at a time and more recently also one WordPress.com Terms of Service concern or one WordPress.com “privileged”2 customer’s policy or programmatic question at a time.

Sobriety is essential for loving life, but so is passion.

1. Torture on 60 Minutes By William F. Buckley Jr. [↩]
2. I have not found a term I like more than VIP Hosting. Privileged does not really work either. Automattic is the privileged ones to have each of WordPress.com’s customers choose to use our service — and all of our customer’s are very important people to us [↩]