To shut down is not to fail—it is to refuse to lie.

Stagnation is more dangerous than risk. The refusal to lie is the first condition of growth.

There is a temptation in every professional domain to sustain what no longer works simply because it once did. A product may limp along, a company may burn capital without conviction, or a project may exist solely to avoid the discomfort of calling it finished. Yet persistence without direction is not resilience—it is dishonesty. To continue for the sake of appearances is to betray the very capacity for progress.