Thank you for the excellent work you do keeping people like me informed! I'm not sure there is anything more important right now.
I am starting a weekly enewsletter for our Oakland , California neighborhood to help inform people of how they can participate in strengthening our social fabric here at home. In the end, it's all about the social fabric, right?
It occurred to me today that the social value of the open-source work I do in my free time has probably been an order of magnitude more useful to the world than everything I've ever done as a paid employee. Needing to seek a wage almost certainly makes me a less productive member of society than I would otherwise be.
As a retired technical writer, I think of how short-lived the usefulness of my work was. It no longer has any value at all.
The community building work I am doing now without a paycheck, though, can potentially stay useful well beyond my lifetime because of the ripple effect of building supportive relationships.