“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki

Elm Europe

Why leaders watch it

Argues for defining success on your own terms rather than by popularity metrics, a lesson for leading projects and communities.

Elm creator Evan Czaplicki's 2018 Elm Europe talk on how to define success for an open source project and language community. It argues against judging projects by GitHub activity and touches on community expectations.

Takeaways

• Pick success measures that fit your goals
• Popularity metrics mislead
• Be clear about what you are building

Topics: Vision & purpose, Focus & prioritization

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