If driving over the ocean isn't going to stop him the Darién Gap will do nothing because then you can simply drive over the Caribbean sea and avoid that swamp all together.

Obligatory XKCD

I see a third option. If he can change the application maybe he can split the UI and the heavy lifting. Or maybe the application already has that option. The responsiveness of the local UI and the brute force of having the heavy lifting on a company owned cloud.
If the load gets to big maybe some of the heavy lifting can be shifted to overnight work. You know, just like Pixar does (or used to do).

Not all work can be done from home.

In some hyperfocussing modes my memory is almost output only. In those modes I can get loads done. It also means that I barely notice the passage of time because nothing new is stored in my memory.
I can forget to sleep in such a mode and only fall out of it because I get really hungry. Really as in: first I need some sugar so I don't pass out before I get some real food.

I really had to learn to comment well in such modes because it also means I can't really remember why I made choices.

Assuming there are no down sides I see no issue in using the placebo effect to get more energy.

The Sansa Clip is similarly sized as the iPod Shuffle. It has a micro SD card slot and later firmware updates allow FLAC and OGG.
It is a great player that survived my abuse for years, with only a silicone skin over it.
I have no direct experience on the successor Sansa Clip + but I would assume that it is similarly awesome.

Yep, but I prefer paying $2500 to iRiver over paying $1200 to Sony.

Not that I would buy either. They are a tad out of my price range and I can't see Spotify support in the list.

The mass difference between an entangled cat and a non entangled cat is the mass of the tread it got entangled in.
see these images

Why doesn't NTP give both UTC and TAI (or GPS)?
Or devise a similar system with as only difference that it gives TAI or GPS.

Use another time standard if it bothers you. UTC is meant to be corrected with leap seconds.
If leap seconds don't matter: use TAI.

DST aligns it better. Noon shifts through the year because the Earth orbit is not completely round.
What we see as a day is the sum of two effects:
1. The rotation of the earth around it's axis. This takes about 23 hours and 56 minutes. Understand it as "relative to the stars in the background". It is called sidereal time.
2. Our orbit around the sun. This adds 4 minutes to each day. If the earth would not rotate relative to the stars in the background this would still cause one "day" per year.
Total is approximately 24 hours.

The rotation around our axis is relatively constant. Sufficiently constant for this.
The orbital speed is not constant. The orbit is not round, there is a point where the planet is closer to the sun. The closer the earth is to the sun the faster it goes.
The faster the earth goes the more degrees per hour the sun movement by the day-caused-by-our-orbit is.
This causes noon to shift approximately 1 hour during the day.
DST corrects for that.

Having said that: we should kill DST. The lost productivity it causes is enough reason.

On mercury this effect is so strong that the sun can be seen going backwards during a part of the day(if there was an observer there).

bad idea

Depends on the crud. Sometimes a base is much better.

Hundreds of million people care. This might push a lot of them in the right direction and that may be enough to prevent the worst of what's coming for us.
It gives me hope.