Everyone has passion projects... There are activities and projects that contributors really enjoy working on and wish they could spend more time on. Unfortunately, very few are actively working on them. In many cases, this is due to the ever-changing business needs of their employer. Ultimately, resource availability for a project is limited to a team which may not have the skills to meet project needs. There are many causes for these conflicts which can have catastrophic effects on the contributors, project, and business, but ultimately, the root cause is resource compartmentalization. Contributors are forced to decide between their passions and job security which can ultimately push them even further away from working on what they enjoy, resulting in engagement issues. Projects are impacted due to the engagement and staffing problems even though the business is required to maintain an idle labor buffer in the event that a project arises which requires a specific knowledge worker’s expertise. To counteract this, we spend a lot of time locally optimizing resources at the project, team, organization, and corporate levels. What if we could identify a global optimum solution which resolves these issues?