In this episode Adam talks to Paul Jarvis about defining your own version of success and why you might not need to build a big business to achieve it.

Show Notes

Topics include:

• Why "success" shouldn't mean the same thing to everyone
• How to stay small without doing all the work you don't want to do yourself
• Why it's important to define what "enough" is for your business instead of always feeling the need to do better than you did last year
• Questions to ask yourself to figure out what "success" would be for you
• How knowing your "enough" can help you build better products for the people you want to serve
• Why you should ignore the people who don't like what you're doing and double down on the people who love it

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Links:

• Paul's website
• Company of One, Paul's upcoming book
• "Enough already", from Paul's blog
• "1,000 True Fans", by Kevin Kelly
• "Find your rat people", from Paul's blog
• "Sean D'Souza doesn't want to grow his company!"

What is Full Stack Radio?

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.