Success from killing your work

Projects with a community only work when the community shows up. The community decides whether it wants to go where you want to go.

Projects with no community tend not to go anywhere, because there’s no feedback loop, no ears on the ground, no advocacy.

Maybe the focus shouldn’t be on “making the community want” what you’re doing.

Maybe trying to force it is the only failure.

Maybe the focus should be instead be on “the pursuit of things that people want, discarding the ideas and projects they don’t, so you can get to the right work”.

Maybe the willingness to kill work in favour of getting closer to your right-fit people is the only success.