While most passive or “dead” galaxies we see today have had fairly passive lives, distant passive galaxies in the early universe may have had a more active path to passivity. Detailed studies of nearby quiescent galaxies have revealed they follow a simple evolutionary track: a burst of star formation early on in their life followed by a quiet existence with low rates of star formation. In contrast, recent discoveries have uncovered a new population of quiescent galaxies that get quenched faster and earlier on than should be possible if following this simple evolutionary track (for example, the distant quiescent galaxies covered in this astrobite and that astrobite). The existence of so many quiescent galaxies so early on in the universe is a problem for galaxy evolution models, and the intense starburst phase and rapid suppression of star formation has been difficult to reproduce with cosmological simulations.