Awesome post, and excellent questions.

What value are you bringing to the Steemiverse?
I am an experienced writer and an experienced human, and I bring both of those. I write about my areas of expertise, and about stuff that just demands to be written about. I'm also working on another project, to be revealed soonish.

How are you serving yourself and others?
I'm helping out on several discord servers. I somehow found myself a mod on 3 of those. and I'm not sure how that happened. I also pop into the PALnet help channel and try and help out sometimes. I'm hopefully providing good feedback to people here, and also upvotes.

I'm serving myself by getting to know cool people, learn new things, and hopefully make myself a part of something big.

Where do your intentions lie?
Make money (that is the promise that got me here, after all), meet cool people, express myself, build my stake.