Build connections so you can do good. Be active in local government? Support your local library? The grandiose stuff seems to suffer from the 'the road to hell

Build connections so you can do good. Be active in local government? Support your local library? The grandiose stuff seems to suffer from the 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions' rule. I see you did smart phone stuff and might feel bad because of the whole 'the road to hell thing'. Well, fun story how I killed people for money (yay). I once had a passion project that reduced waste in an industry, in some cases allowing places providing services to stay open that otherwise would close. When I went to one of the first sites to oversee implementation/learn improvements from the domain experts starting to use it and all proud I was making the world better, I found out that the 'waste' was actually collected and used in desperate communities to save the lives of people that could afford even less than the communities I had helped. I literally at the end of the day and distilled down had ended up killing people in order to save money. And I had spent nights/weekends/alienated my family to make sure it happened! I also saved lives in communities that would have had lost services without the savings, and positively impacted a lot of others. But still, there were people dead over my passion project to make the world better. Or take my parents who were hippies. I grew up on a commune because they were doing the best thing, anti-capitalism, pro-organic, rah rah. All my parents accomplished living on it was they delayed their lives a decade scrapping bare bones subsistence survival out of the earth, and raised their child in poverty. Again, good intentions, bad results (voluntary child poverty for their own child). Sometimes we are going to accidentally increase child poverty or kill people for money. And we just gotta say 'Well f*ck that didn't work' and move on and keep trying, keep smiling, keep being kind, and keep helping others.