Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles,” first principles thinking is the practice of questioning every assumption you think you know about a given problem, then creating new solutions from scratch.

Day 122/250 of my "tour" of @BCRFcure funded researchers brings me to @Neil_Iyengar (@MSKCancerCenter) He's developed a digitized intervention. The Healthy Living Program offers individualized lifestyle prescriptions to improve #breastcancer outcomes. bcrf.org/researchers/neil-iy…

As I return to my "tour" of @BCRFcure funded researchers, I am compelled to tweet once more on the enduring impact of @DrSusanLove One way we can honor Susan is her Love Research Army... to be sure all with #breastcancer have answers as unique as them. ❤️drsusanloveresearch.org/love…

Day 108/250 of my "tour" of @BCRFcure funded researchers brings me to @Elizabeth_Comen work at @MSKCancerCenter who is "developing a minimally invasive blood test that can detect and classify early-stage #breastcancer and predict response to treatment."

Dr. Feinman at @lombardic aims "to identify novel microbiota-associated biomarkers that predict poor outcome which could lead to ... personalized microbial-based therapies to harness the immune system of #TNBC patients to ... defeat this disease." 2/2 bcrf.org/researchers/rena-fe…

Day 101/250 of my "tour" of @BCRFcure funded researchers. Today's "visit" brings me to NJ. All research inspires me, but when it relates to #TNBC or #metastaticbreastcancer it always catches my eye. Maureen passed from pleural effusions due to this on 10.21.2014 #ASCO23 1/2

Imagine if email worked like social media right now... we'd need a different email address for every mail application. Twitter 2.0 needs to add new functionality... the rest needs to be like POP/IMAP where we can email/connect/tweet any old way we please.

During our @SusanGKomen Austin KLC meeting yesterday, I reflected that research takes 2 forms. One is at the bench and in the cells. The other is at the screen and in the data. Biology and ontology. Both matter. To life.

"We can’t change time, but we can change what we do with it. Our lives are the answer. Love is the ultimate alchemy of time." Reflections on time and love after the passing of my mom and father-in-law. ❤️🙏 theloveofmylife.us/2022/02/t…

@GraceCordovano As we both know, just b/c the lawyers have "papered" the rights to the #healthdata so as to re-purpose it, does not mean it is right or patient-centric. #HIPAA #EHR #PatientPrivacy

What's worse @GraceCordovano is that it is NOT IBM's data. They may be holding it on their servers, but it is the #patients data. #privacy #consent

“So, as I think about October, as I think about pink, I think about dominoes, I think about what happens when we work together. That’s the cool part. One domino isn’t enough. You need a bunch. One domino needs the other domino.” #BCAM #BCSM #rethinkpink theendoflinearity.com/i-have…

In the course of several conversations over the last few days with respect to my work in the world of technology and #oncology, algorithms have been coming up a lot. I dig deeper at my Medium home. garyleethompson.medium.com/a…

"There’s a universal truth buried even deeper that is a network effect of giving: The more you give, the more you get — and the more you get, the more you give, and that’s also a network effect." Looking forward to listening to this podcast! @JamesCurrier podcast.nfx.com/episodes/kev…

The challenge is the current #EHR paradigm is simply like fax machines with glass screens but without paper on rolls. I dubbed it #chartopomorphism a few years back. Paper-based thinking with digital objects. #timetoevolve

So, the filter will work like this. If it doesn’t fit the #familythree then the #somethree don’t matter. Then, if it isn’t civil or constructive, then no posting or tweeting. And, finally, if it is simply snarky or demeaning, then it doesn’t past the test either. 3/3 #accountable

Musing over a new #somethree. What is #somethree? It is my social media three, guiding principles as to whether I will post, comment or like. First draft looks like this: 1) does it meet our #familythree, 2) is it civil? and 3) is it snarky or demeaning to someone? 2/3

A few years back, we started the new year without resolutions but instead a set of principles, our #familythree as a way of discerning how we were channeling time, energy, and love into making a difference. The #familythree are love, empowerment, and community. 1/3

The patients, with the right #digitalfabric can weave together those quarks like a “jaguar circling in the night” to assemble those healthcare resources into a complex adaptive system of one. Their “system” for their unique problem. 2/2