{"id":1955,"date":"2021-06-24T16:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/letter-michael-parsons-obituary\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:38:18","slug":"letter-michael-parsons-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/letter-michael-parsons-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Michael Parsons obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/02\/michael-parsons-obituary\" title=\"\">Michael Parsons<\/a> was the best boss a young engineer could have. When asked for help on a complex problem, he would say, \u201cLet\u2019s go back to first principles,\u201d and break the problem down into parts that could be analysed simply.<\/p>\n<p>With typical self-deprecation, he later said that he took this approach because he had a poor memory for more complex solutions. However, it ensured that advanced computer calculations for his cutting-edge bridge designs were always carefully \u201csense checked\u201d, with the practicalities of construction taken into account.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/24\/letter-michael-parsons-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/56d6a7a61c264b286a261081a1655379ebb7c73a\/94_263_2936_1760\/master\/2936.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=40a3def499a8dc51e00bb15d0a184bbf\" title=\"Letter: Michael Parsons obituary\" \/>Michael Parsons was the best boss a young engineer could have. When asked for help on a complex problem, he would say, \u201cLet\u2019s go back to first principles,\u201d and break the problem down into parts that could be analysed simply.<br \/>\nWith typical self-deprecation, he later said that he took this approach because he had a poor memory for more complex solutions. However, it ensured that advanced computer calculations for his cutting-edge bridge designs were always carefully \u201csense checked\u201d, with the practicalities of construction taken into account. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Parsons was the best boss a young engineer could have. When asked for help on a complex problem, he would say, \u201cLet\u2019s go back to first principles,\u201d and break the problem down into parts that could be analysed simply. With typical self-deprecation, he later said that he took this approach because he had a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/letter-michael-parsons-obituary\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter: Michael Parsons obituary<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}