@geoffreyconley
The main things I look for in choosing a project:
- Cool people
- Worthy goal
- Fun problems to solve
With 1/3 I can survive. 2/3 is a great project.
I suppose I do consider the odds of the project being truly successful — but mostly I take a kind of Camusesque perspective: it’s necessary for orgs to try things, for projects to crash and burn, for people to explore what turn out to be dead ends. In the end, I just want to have been glad to have done the work.