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I’d like to write a cookbook with a recipe from each culinary culture in the world. Instead of dividing the world’s cuisines by country, I want to divide them by region and culture. That way, the cuisines from different cultures can be properly distinguished from each other, even if they are from neighboring regions.

I want to reduce classic dishes down to the most barebones ingredients. Once you do that, you can create simple dishes with the finest ingredients. By cooking with minimal ingredients, cooking becomes more fun and less of a pain.

Every civilization throughout history had their own legendary monsters, and the heroes who dared fight them. I’d like to write stories about these fictional epic battles, both as an exercise in writing fiction and also as an exercise in researching other cultures and their stories.

Most people read books and then make exactly zero changes to their life… What if we took 365 of the best books, read one summary each morning, and then made sure we implemented at least one takeaway from the summary, on that day? That’s the most efficient way I can think of for books to change your life.

An overview of 1,000 topics covering all of human knowledge, calling out the aspects of each topic that are most interesting and important to know. The final product would be something like an encyclopedia, summarized into a single readable volume.

Millions of books were published over a hundred years ago, but most are woefully out of date in their content and stories, many of them containing refuted information or offensive stereotypes. It would be a fun project to edit some of these books to modernize their content.