{"id":590,"date":"2009-03-30T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-03-30T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T19:48:00","slug":"first-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/first-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"First Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How would you use 100 million dollars if someone asked you to set up and run an Institute for Theoretical Physics?\u00c2\u00a0 My friend Howard Burton has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/First-Principles-Business-Serious-Science\/dp\/1554701759\">memoir<\/a> of his 8 years as the founding Executive Director of the Perimeter Institute, taking it from conception to being one of the world&#8217;s best known institutes for theoretical physics. I&#8217;ve heard many people theorize about how a scientific institution ideally <b>should<\/b> be organized (&#8220;consider a spherical physicist&#8230;&#8221;), and I&#8217;ve contributed more than a few thoughts of my own to such discussions. What I really liked about this book, and what gives it a unique perspective, is that it&#8217;s from someone who was actually in the hot seat, from the get-go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you use 100 million dollars if someone asked you to set up and run an Institute for Theoretical Physics?\u00c2\u00a0 My friend Howard Burton has written a memoir of his 8 years as the founding Executive Director of the Perimeter Institute, taking it from conception to being one of the world&#8217;s best known institutes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/first-principles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Principles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}