I would invest half my life in experimental horticulture. I would start by attempting to create a more winter hardy, and thus potentially perennial, gourd simi

I would invest half my life in experimental horticulture. I would start by attempting to create a more winter hardy, and thus potentially perennial, gourd similar to butternut squash and fairy tale pumpkins. The goal of this is to create a sustainable food item that adds cheap filler for processed foods that greatly increases health of people in industrialized nations and provides abundant access to nutritious calories for people in developing nations. I also noticed gourds are extremely prone to damage by various moths and swarming insects while watermelons are not. I would solve for this gap as well. The other half of my life would be invested in creation of decentralized communications, which means no servers. No web servers, no data economies. Just direct connections between trusted users and for each user to have trusted direct access to their personal devices. I have already started on this, but its challenging. The technology is challenging, but the greater challenges are from existing less efficient data economies and the ignorance of the people therein.