Stepping Off the Executive Treadmill At the beginning of this year, after leaving Blue Cedar, I did something tech professionals rarely allow themselves to do: I stopped. For over two decades, my career was defined by a relentless cadence across enterprise scale-ups and early-stage startups: launch, position, execute, repeat. In cybersecurity and enterprise software, momentum is treated as the ultimate metric. If you aren’t sprinting toward the next quarter's pipeline, the ne