text: I didn’t think I’d be an entrepreneur. But, when I consider things in reverse, it makes sense. My parents came to the US from India in the 1970s, and I was born in Buffalo where I lived until I was six. My favorite memory is playing in the snow without the responsibility of having to shovel it.
  I grew up in Phoenix, and early on I was interested in sports, math, music, and science. I played piano and saxophone in concert and jazz bands. During high school I took my first programming classes but mostly played Quake 3. Still, I learned computers are force multipliers.
  When I was trying to pick a major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, a family friend suggested that healthcare and computers would be an interesting combo. Little did I know how that observation would play into my life! I majored in computer science and cell biology, but I lacked a clear sense of direction for my career. I had research experience (microarray data analysis), so applying to MD/PhD programs bought me time to figure out what I wanted to do (I had a better answer for my interviews).
  Clinical informatics was off the beaten path when I started Vanderbilt University’s MD/PhD program. Teammates matter, and I was fortunate to meet my future PredictionHealth co-founders at the very beginning. I met Pedro Teixeira during our interview weekend and we were assigned to share a hotel room. I met Michael Poku during my housing search and we lived in the same building.
  The 2009 healthcare reform debate during my first year at Vanderbilt brought challenges like quality and value of care into focus. I saw fragmented care delivery across clinical teams that were patched together by inefficient workarounds. In the Department of Biomedical Informatics, I learned how messy data slows discovery and the importance of fitting into the real time clinical workflow.
  Pedro and I discussed the challenges in healthcare and how to improve wellness and care quality. In 2013, the American Medical Informatics Association held their first Student Design Challenge which focused on reinventing clinical documentation. While our system is very different today, our goal then was the same – to support providers in delivering the best patient care. We finished 2nd in the challenge (too business-y and not academic enough). Afterward, we thought, “let’s just start building it,” and so that’s how we spent our Saturdays. We took what was supposed to be a short leave of absence near the end medical school to build a product and launch it.
  We wrote and then deleted hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Fortunately, we learned that figuring out how to solve your users’ problems was the critical ingredient for a successful company. We also learned that we couldn’t stop building tools to help clinicians – applying many years of clinical, research, and computational experience to make patient care better. Today we’re growing a startup called PredictionHealth with customers all over the country, and we’ve learned many valuable lessons along the way:
  I’m excited about building the data infrastructure that healthcare is missing to make incorporating AI into the clinical workflow possible. Google and Amazon built cloud infrastructure that helped companies grow and innovate more quickly. Similarly, our infrastructure will make it easier to train, evaluate, and incorporate new AI models into clinical workflows. We can make healthcare better for every patient and we can do it faster with the right tools.
  As for personal goals, I’m just glad I finally got through the gauntlet of the last years of medical school while building a company. I think things should get easier from here – at least I hope so!
  We’ll be hearing from more PredictionHealth teammates in the future. To keep up with the latests, you can subscribe to the blog.
  
  America’s slide, following a lack of interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) majors among the country’s student population, does not show signs of letting up, according to some. And it is not just lagging with regard to education. A l’opposé de la Chine et de Singapour.
  
  Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works within art cinema, and since her 2001 debut The Swamp she has become one of international film's most acclaimed auteurs.
  Gerd Gemünden offers a career-spanning analysis of a filmmaker dedicated to revealing the ephemeral, fortuitous, and endless variety of human experience. Martel's focus on sound, touch, taste, and smell challenge film's usual emphasis on what a viewer sees. By merging these and other experimental techniques with heightened realism, she invites audiences into film narratives at once unresolved, truncated, and elliptical. Gemünden aligns Martel's filmmaking methods with the work of other international directors who criticize—and pointedly circumvent—the high-velocity speeds of today's cinematic storytelling. He also explores how Martel's radical political critique forces viewers to rethink entitlement, race, class, and exploitation of indigenous peoples within Argentine society and beyond.
  "Journalists discovered Lucrecia Martel with her last film, but scholars like Gerd Gemünden were already paying attention to her extraordinary body of work. Now, Gemünden analyzes the complexities of the Martel universe with a combination of cinematic precision and historical knowledge, unpacking her references and delineating her acute specificity of place. A welcome volume and likely an instant classic."--B. Ruby Rich, editor, Film Quarterly
  "In a superb and richly documented in-depth reading of Lucrecia Martel's filmic oeuvre, Gerd Gemünden places her firmly within the context of Argentina's vibrant New Cinema of the last twenty years, while also making a convincing case for her to be considered a leading filmmaker of our time."--Jens Andermann, author of New Argentine Cinema
  Gerd Gemünden is professor of German studies, film and media studies, and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. His books include Continental Strangers: German Exile Filmmakers in Hollywood, 1933–1950 and A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films.
  
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  “You can’t ‘should’ yourself into anything,” and “stop ‘should-ing’ on yourself’” are phrases often heard around the counseling office I go to once a week. It’s a mindset switch our counselors try to imbed into us counselees, meaning that you can’t force yourself to do something simply by invoking “should,” even though most of us do it so often we don’t even notice.
  Think about it. Running in the background of most people’s heads at all times are thoughts like: I should be farther along in life by now; I should be trying harder; I should stop smoking; I should be waking up earlier; I should not eat Oreos; I should run every day; I should eat more salad; I should be skinnier; I should, I should, I should…
  Most of those things don’t seem so bad, right? Ah, but that’s precisely where the trouble comes in. Taking things that we are told are good for us and framing it with the word “should” will always only do two things. The first is that we will immediately feel shame that we are not doing those things currently, and the second is that our brains immediately rebel against whatever we are “should-ing” ourselves with, because no one likes to feel shame and we are always trying to return to a place of perceived calm.
  The word “should” is a true monster of a word. The instant we tell ourselves we should be doing something is the same instant we are likely going to do the exact opposite of that thing. In order to achieve real, lasting change, the impetus must come from a place of self-acceptance — not judgment — or you’re dead in the water before even beginning.
  Should-ing is something I’ve been dealing with pretty strongly lately, as the year begins to wind down and I still have yet to drop 11 the last 20 pounds I was hoping to lose before Dec. 31 (at the time of writing, this it’s the beginning of October). I’ve lost 10 since January, and luckily am sustaining that mark, but not much more. This is prime ground for thoughts like “I should be farther along” to creep in, and creep in they certainly have.
  But it isn’t fair to put myself under the “should” microscope without considering what else has happened this year: having to share space with another family for over five months while our home was under renovation; walking through a debilitating month of severe, untreatable vertigo; and starting a new job that has been so stressful, my brain and body physically couldn’t handle anything else at the end of the day.
  Another way to think about should-ing is a concept called “secret rules” I heard about recently on a podcast. Jon Acuff, a New York Times bestselling author, was on the That Sounds Fun podcast talking about his new book, Finish, in which he discusses what he believes holds people back from achieving their deepest goals and dreams. He thinks it comes down to what he terms “secret rules” we all live by. Secret rules are a set of beliefs — often unexamined and privately held — that define how we live our life, but in reality are actually total lies we unnecessarily burden ourselves with.
  This could look like anything — a mom never taking time for herself because perhaps a secret rule she’s come to believe is that doing anything for herself is selfish, therefore she lives burnt out and exhausted. Or someone else staying in a job he hates rather than pursuing one he loves because he believes that the “right” job is the one that brings home the most bacon.