<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> you def do, you’re practically an institution on your own. I look at what you’ve put out into the public sphere, self-funded, and I’m so friggin impressed and grateful. If the python foundation or linux fiundation or something like that had permanent Fellow positions, you’d be a shoe-in. Just to keep doing what you already do.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> I need a benefactor.</p>

<p>Remember when people were typing one word and then blindly accepting the next one from autosuggestion because it was a kind of fun and silly thing to do?</p><p>We now have a whole industry built around it.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> spot on!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> That sounds like it would be pretty ideal. Currently funding situation sure makes the prospects of such a thing sound scary though.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I have an idea for a technical book I want to write, and I really really want to make the time.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I don’t want to teach, though. At least not yet. I was (the equivalent to, because the title doesn’t exist in the UC system) a research professor a bit over a decade ago, which is a postdoc blessed with grant co-PI rights, but no teaching reaponsibilities. That’s what I’m talking about.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> I&#39;d say you could be a visiting professor, but TBH it&#39;s probably a trap.</p>

<p>What I really need is a postdoc (again). I need someone to pay me a very basic salary to take some time to work through all the ideas in my head. I guarantee there are multiple things in there, but I need a few months to work through them, without draining savings. </p><p>When I’m draining savings it’s too hard to resist getting back on the horse and going out there to solve other people’s shitty tech debt and other crises for a lot more money.</p>