I'd do pretty much what I do now, to be honest. Although my dev work would be projects that I choose on the schedule I choose rather than the ones required by my job.

I’d read, and I’d travel, but I’d travel with a backpack and a pair of good walking shoes and I’d take the road less traveled.

I tinker with my BitGrid project, hoping I can keep myself together long enough to see it successfully through TinyTapeout.

Who knows, you might have one in your computer in a decade or two.

If you're contemplating this issue seriously, know that not doing anything isn't an option for more than a few months, max.

Workout, learn languages and play guitar. Fitness / physical play is such a huge component of happiness; think of little kids running around... are we so different?

I still work in part for fear of not having enough to provide comfort for the family, but I've been rolling it back slowly. We could have our son in preschool from morning to 3pm, or morning to 5-6pm with aftercare. I chose to pick him up at 3pm and spend extra time with him each day at a park/library/etc...

Well seeing as how im icarcerated and dont have to i spend my days tryn to break threw more of this ipad they gave me succerities so i can brows the web

Figure out how AI can help the blind and the deaf. Take up ceramics. Write a travel book. Tinker with low-cost robotics. Volunteer for some environmental restoration project - the riverbank ones seem interesting.

Similar question, four month ago (299 comments):

Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500429

Elite recreational fitness/sports training and occasional travel mixed in with more time for healthy eating and creative projects.

Does that come with infinite resources?

Build a monument of brutalism unlike anything this world has yet seen (and I’m well aware of what that covers.)

Write open source software, travel to tech conferences and post comments like this on Hacker News.

Hike in every country and territory of the world. After that is done I deserve some rest…

I bounce back and forth between hang gliding and kiteboarding.

Workout, play some sports, eat all day, get buff

Build techno-forward sound systems and share them.

Work on general artificial intelligence

Build systems at scale to serve the human.

Go hunt bad guys

Sleep long every day

I would drive to my FAANG job in a Rolls Royce most days instead of a model 3 Tesla.

I'd not sweat it if things slipped. shrug

The work is interesting enough for now.

Ski, hike and swim.

Have children, open a restaurant or brewery or winery or pub, make art sculptures, landscape, make video games, play video games, play tabletop wargames.

Live.

marry and have children I suppose, work is so stressful and taking so much time and energy

travel