If "the hacker" is truly brilliant, at hacking, then he likely will be brilliant or smart at other things too. Besides your options 1-5, think about things tha

If "the hacker" is truly brilliant, at hacking, then he likely will be brilliant or smart at other things too. Besides your options 1-5, think about things that are wrong or lacking in the world, and work on fixing some of them. That might require code, but most problems don't. Even problems that do require code are not saved by the code, they're saved by recognizing the problem and doing anything at all that's effective. Coders don't save the world; deployers of code and other resources save the world. Your 1, 2 and 5 will build your chops, whether the first focus of those efforts are world changing or not. You also might benefit by working with someone who has a vision and has figured out how to execute on it. If you take away the implied requirement that 1, 2 and 5 need to be code-focused, your first efforts might build chops and allow you to focus on problems rather than solutions in search of problems. I'm not saying you shouldn't code, just open your mind.