Career stagnation is the death of ambition

The moment you stop making progress in your career is the moment you start looking for another job.

The quote contains a typo - "access" should be "axis" - referring to a visual chart plotting what you can control versus what you cannot control in your career.

If you drew an access of what you control and what you cannot control, as you're starting your career, most of the work that you're doing is in what you control. As you start becoming mid-senior, I see the conversation shifts from what can I do to why is the organization not doing this for me?

When you are younger, when you're starting off, rate of change is crazy. You are growing almost every six months. As you start becoming mid-senior, I start seeing conversations on, 'Okay, maybe I should not do that. Maybe I should not take on this product. I don't know what it means for my career.'

If you take a frog, and you throw in a pot of boiling water, it'll jump out. But if you take a frog and you put in a pot and you increase the temperature degree by degree by degree, the frog doesn't notice and before it knows, it's boiled alive. And how I apply this to your question to come back and circle back to it is that, it's really easy to be a victim of inertia.

I really look at it from the lens of learning. What can I learn here, and how am I growing and developing? So there might be an argument for you to stay at a job for two decades. If it turns out that every single day you're being really challenged, you're learning new things, you're deriving a lot of meaningful enjoyment out of your work.