Ex-Pluralsight exec on why climbing the ladder was 'a sophisticated form of hiding'
JnBrymn · x · 2026-09-16
Greg Ceccarelli's essay "The Gentle Violence of Staying Put" recounts leaving his executive career at Pluralsight. His ambition, he writes, was "a sophisticated form of hiding"—a performance of someone else's definition of success. He argues each rung of the ladder takes you further from where real things grow, and urges readers to be bold enough to jump off the career conveyor belt, recognizing that rationalizations for "just a few more years" are excuses.
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