If your aim is to provide something valuable to the world, whether and how much people are willing to pay for your service/product/entertainment is a good indicator of value. But Don’t let money be a detour to achieving other values, it is a useful indicator in some sense but shouldn’t be the only thing controlling what you work on.
References
- Episode 117 in the Cal Newport podcast.
- Cal references Derek Sivers who said the original quote: https://sive.rs/2020-04-lym