What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

I'm keeping myself busy working on my BitGrid architecture, I aim to route around the 80 years of technical debt started by John von Neumann. One of his first casualties was ENIAC, which was slowed down by about 80% when it was "improved"[1]

BitGrid[2] is a green field approach, and I need an accountability buddy to keep me focused. Replacing everything is hard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Improvements

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

I've got a backlog of games I want to make, both board and video games. Working on a couple smaller video games right now, but I'd be able to spend more time on them, and maybe even hire an artist and/or musician to make assets for them.

Also I might finally have the time to get back into making music and learning art that I could eventually make games with good enough art/music of my own that can actually attract people's attention, instead of just sometimes being serviceable enough that it doesn't look like a tiny step above programmer art (and the music isn't just kinda boring)... I've released games with both before, and I will again, but it'd be nice to have the time to actually make them kind of decent without resorting to a minimalist art style (flat textures and basic shapes and typography).

Besides that, I would love to have the time to start learning something a bit more academic, maybe climate or environmental science. Maybe I can figure contribute there in some tiny way.

I think a better title would be "What would you do if money is not a concern for you"

Marginalia Search: a non-profit amateur search engineer

If I did not need to work and was financially secured, I would dedicate my time to learn and master the craft of parsers, compiler design and implementation, and research new design patterns and algorithms for Garbage Collection.

Teach physics to geology enthusiasts so i can land a government contract involving fossils..

(I dont need those contracts, i just desire them. Which gov is interested in fossils? The right gov)

I dont get it. projects that don't involve work? projects without need?

The same ones I work on now, just without the need for a day job.

What would you do with the fossils?