Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.
I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
Choose your mistakes carefully.
I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.
The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.