{"id":920,"date":"2014-02-14T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T21:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=920"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T21:41:05","slug":"when-ending-is-critical-for-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/when-ending-is-critical-for-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"When ending is critical for beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I wrote this as a note to someone special earlier this week, and I really like the message. I&#8217;ve decided to share it in an edited format here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Folks leave.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad because it feels like somehow the system failed. But we don&#8217;t think that about death. When someone dies, we create room for someone new to be born who brings a newer, and hopefully better, perspective to who we are, what we do, and how we do it.<\/p>\n<p>Death&#8217;s inevitability gives us a reprieve. And yet even without death everything comes to an end &#8211; inevitably. Hitting streaks, consecutive quarters of profitability, periods of peace &#8211; none can last forever.<\/p>\n<p>In a static system, there is neither death nor birth. Culture can become static. Endings act as a wake up call that we cannot be static. The lesson is to not hang on to being what we were, but, instead, create an energy to become.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the journey is starting to let go, and letting the culture be carried by others. The others will do a great job because we choose them, and make sure they do. The actors who see that transition, and decide it&#8217;s not for them make the best choice for all in leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The end game doesn&#8217;t change. But we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this as a note to someone special earlier this week, and I really like the message. I&#8217;ve decided to share it in an edited format here. Folks leave. It&#8217;s sad because it feels like somehow the system failed. But we don&#8217;t think that about death. When someone dies, we create room for someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becomingapm","category-builder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAIx-eQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}