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Have you considered writing short science fiction? Deadly serious, here: this is very well written.

Thank you for the kind words, they make me particularly happy because I felt completely mentally shot post-burnout from an awful consulting project, I'm glad I still have it, and I think NSI definitely helped my recovery.

My original goal post-college was to write, direct and self-fund microbudget movies. I got caught up in the self-funding part.

Here is my latest attempt at solving the money problem once and for all so I could focus on writing:

I called it the Winter Startup Challenge, and my goal is to defossilize one human activity.

http://wsc.willholloway.net/index.html

Theres some more (and photos) about nootropics here:

http://wsc.willholloway.net/nootropics.html

"Best part to predict the future is to live it." There's great deal of science fiction about enhancement, but usually it discusses nanotechnology or compute-based augmentation; there's less out there that would cover the impact of actually understanding how the brain works ("the brain genome project") and developing more "natural" solutions.

Re: movies. Charles Stross ('cstross' on here) mentioned how television has effectively replaced the short story as commercial medium -- so youtube shorts could effectively have the same impact short stories (e.g., Flowers for Algernon -- the original story about enhancement) once had.

tl;dr Please write a modernized "Flowers for Algernon", perhaps as a film short.

You and the other commenters piqued my interest in writing a sci-fi short story. I'm currently trying to raise a f&f funding round and then on to a crowd funding round, but I thought maybe I could justify the time if I put a little product placement for my invention in there.

I was thinking about it and since we have seen the drug induced super-intelligence story a few times, I was thinking of incorporating some of the ideas of David Pierce, from his seminal work The Hedonistic Imperative.

http://hedweb.com

Can't promise anything but I'll let you know if I do!

http://www.subzeroscientific.com/#!faq/c18ek looks like your competitor. Ancillary cannabis investment is pretty hot right now, you might want to pitch Arcview. https://arcviewgroup.com/

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