Happened to read the linked Substack (yes, ew) post.
I can relate to the author's feeling of satisfaction. It's what drives me to contribute to OpenStreetMap, to write poetry, prose, music, software. I literally done the same as her, watching a version of OSM without my contributions, then with.
But there's something very paradoxical between her situation and mine, which I'm struggling to pinpoint.
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