{"id":935,"date":"2005-06-06T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=935"},"modified":"2005-06-06T09:18:05","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T16:18:05","slug":"the-flutter-ahead-of-you-your-possible-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/06\/06\/the-flutter-ahead-of-you-your-possible-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"They Flutter Ahead of You, Your Possible Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the work I do.  The fact that I get to spend large amounts of time thinking about computation and quantum theory&#8230;well I can&#8217;t believe how lucky I&#8217;ve been!  And now I get to teach and yell and scream about computation and quantum theory.  Yes, very lucky!<br \/>\nBut, like most other people I know, I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I didn&#8217;t do what I currently do.  Especially at times when I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m doing a particularly good job at the work I do, I like to muse about the different possiblities.  Especially on my bus ride to work.  What are my favorite daydreams?  Founding a new university.  Writing speculative popular science books.  Touring the country delivering science lectures.  None of which are really that far from what I really do.  Which makes me think I am a narrow minded sheltered elitist.  Which then makes me think I should do something really different, like move to a ski town and open a bookstore.  Or move to a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains and become a rancher.  Which makes me laugh, because these really aren&#8217;t so different for the majority of people.    And then I exit the bus and get to my office and read through the list of titles in the latest Physical Review Letters, and again I can&#8217;t imagine every doing anything but my current job.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the work I do. The fact that I get to spend large amounts of time thinking about computation and quantum theory&#8230;well I can&#8217;t believe how lucky I&#8217;ve been! And now I get to teach and yell and scream about computation and quantum theory. Yes, very lucky! But, like most other people I know, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/06\/06\/the-flutter-ahead-of-you-your-possible-futures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Flutter Ahead of You, Your Possible Futures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}