I distinctly remember at Microsoft in the late 90s, walking around campus and there was just all the folks sort of saying, God, we must be God's gifts to mankind because we are so good now that the market also recognizes it, except that it was obviously the beginning of the end in some sense, right? The day hubris takes over and you're not grounded... See more

The chef Samin Nosrat on endings:

“Endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business...

Even the best gigs don't last forever. Nor should they.”

“at different stages of your life and career, you should zoom out and say to yourself, ‘Okay, I’m here in this corner of a mountain range—do I still want to climb this mountain?’ Just check in every once in a while—’Am I at a local maximum? Is it time to walk down and head in a completely different direction?’”