Norman Podhoretz said making it was when you were being published, paid, and praised. For me, I’ll know I’ve made it when I’m old enough and have enough gray hair that I can criticize “kids these days” without being a hypocrite, like Jerry Seinfeld is constantly doing. On his pseudo-talk show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” he and Kate McKinnon make a great point about the petty social tyranny of how kids these days use the word chill:

Seinfeld: Kids with the chill word. My son uses it as a weapon every day. “How was your date?” “Chill, dad.”