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R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; & Striving Towards Happiness

Professor David Maslach talks about graduate school, research, science, Innovation, and entrepreneurship. The R3ciprocity project is my way to give back as much as I possibly can. I seek to provide insights and tools to change how we understand science, and make it more democratic.

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00:08:29

You Will Never Feel Like You Have Enough Time When...

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2025/11/22

If you are building some form of software or doing new product development, you will never feel like you have enough time. Lots of people out there have a little startup or they are trying to build something, and that is a big part of what this channel is about. I just want to explain what has happened and why I am talking about this. I try to document all of the things I am going through.I am a real life professor. My job is normally to do research most of the time, 80 percent of the time, and 20

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00:10:56

Why Do Smart, Kind PhDs Struggle in Academia? And,...

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2025/11/22

I love building something raw — and letting everyone see the mess.That’s the point of the R3ciprocity Project.There’s uncertainty.There’s embarrassment.There’s a lot of “I have no idea what I’m doing.”But I keep going.Because what I’ve realized — in startups and in academia — is that we have a strong culture of hiding.Hiding failure.Hiding doubt.Hiding how much of this is just making it up as you go.Here’s the wild part:I’ve read thousands of articles. I’ve studied innovation for two decades.I have

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00:13:41

Why Academia Might Be the Hardest Career in the World

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2025/11/20

People think being a professor is easy.You sit around, read a few books, teach a few classes, and write the occasional paper.But that’s not the reality. Not even close.I’ve talked to Olympic athletes, bankers, folks from construction—and many of them say the same thing after stepping into this profession:“I had no idea it would be this hard.”Because here’s what nobody tells you:Being a professor means spending years creating ideas that no one believes in.You wake up every day and try to convince

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00:08:53

I Still Feel Like a Failure—Even After Doing...

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2025/11/18

I’ve hit every milestone I was supposed to hit.I got the degrees.I earned tenure.I published the research.I’m raising a family.I even built a platform to help other researchers.And still—most days, I feel like I’m failing.Not because I’ve failed.But because perfection culture has trained people like us to believe we’re never enough.In academia, in parenting, in life—we are constantly being measured, ranked, judged, and compared.We’re told that if we just optimize one more thing, maybe then we’ll

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00:13:05

Why Mental Health at Work Feels So New (But Isn’t)

R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation;... ·

2025/11/18

I think about mental health a lot—especially mental health at work.Most of us were never taught how to manage the invisible stuff. Not in school. Not in research. Not even in our families. It’s only in the last 20–30 years that people even started talking about mental health outside of medical journals. And even now, most of what we see is snapshots. Clean. Marketable. Sanitized.But life doesn’t feel like a snapshot.It feels like managing thoughts late at night.Trying to nudge yourself from the

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00:06:46

Behind Every Startup: Anxiety, Doubt, and Doing It...

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2025/11/15

Not the pitch decks. Not the TED Talks. Not the LinkedIn wins.But the quiet moments of anxiety. The constant doubt. The deep embarrassment of putting something out into the world before it’s ready—and maybe before you are.In this podcast, Professor David Maslach (creator of R3ciprocity) shares a brutally honest take on what it actually feels like to build something real—when you have no funding, no roadmap, and no clue if it will work.This is for the people in the middle of the mess, trying to build

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00:06:52

From PhD to Playground: Reimagining Innovation as Fun

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2025/11/15

simple: 1. Generate knowledge 2. Turn it into real-world solutions 3. Repeat—with joyBut instead of pretending that this happens in a perfectly rational system, I want to remind people: it’s allowed to be fun.Serious progress can come from play.Deep insight can come from silliness.The point is to keep going, and keep trying—even when it feels pointless.

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00:10:24

I Feel Like I’m Failing at Everything. But I Keep...

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2025/11/13

Most days, I feel like I’m failing at everything.I’m trying to be a good dad.A good husband.A good son.A good professor.A good person.And most days—I feel like I’m not doing enough in any of those roles.Like I’m stretched so thin, I barely exist in any of them.But I still show up.Not because I have it figured out. Not because I’m successful.But because I believe there are people out there who feel the exact same way—and think they’re the only ones.You’re not.I talk about what it’s really like to

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00:09:59

School Never Worked for Me. But I Kept Going Anyway &...

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2025/11/11

I’m going to say something that might sound extreme:If we got rid of higher education as we know it—college, university, all of it—maybe we’d be better off.Why?Because most people don’t actually want to learn.They don’t care. They’re checked out. And no message—no matter how true or kind—seems to land unless it’s already preaching to the choir.And yet… I keep going.Because I know this: real education moves the needle.But only when people take it seriously.Only when they do the hard work.Only when

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00:04:26

Stop Waiting for the Answer. You Must Push Against...

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2025/11/10

We’re taught in school to look for a single best answer. One multiple-choice question. One correct option. Select A and move on.But the real world never works like that.Most of the time, the answer is never given to you.Most of the time, you don’t even know what the question actually is.In real life, the “answers” are never independent. They’re highly connected in weird ways. If you select A in the first question, the response in the second question might be B. Or D. Or something you didn’t expect

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00:09:09

I Didn’t Understand Innovation As A Professor Until I...

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2025/11/08

It’s not lost on me how wrong management theories often are.I read a lot. And I know this sounds pretentious, but I’m confident enough now to say I’m one of the few people who actually studies platforms and builds one. The only reason I got here is because I’m building the Reciprocity platform with my own money, my own time, and all the embarrassment that goes with it.And that’s why I see how disconnected management theory often is from the real world. We rarely capture what it feels like to

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00:01:30

I Accidentally Built the TikTok of Science

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2025/11/06

I built the most powerful research tool I have ever used — more impactful than AI. It lets you compare ideas, generate abstracts, and get instant feedback. I don’t know why researchers keep scrolling past it.

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00:08:10

What If Academia Is Dying? (Rethinking the Collapse...

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2025/11/06

I keep hearing that academia is dying.That we’re in an existential crisis.That peer review is broken. That the system is collapsing.And I get it.I’ve been deeply concerned about parts of it, too—especially peer review. When it’s bad, it’s almost useless. But when it works, it’s beautiful. And hard.Still, I don’t buy the narrative that we’re watching the death of the academic system.Because one thing organizational theory teaches us—if we’re really paying attention—is that you can look at the same

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00:12:13

Why I Don’t Trust Sensational Headlines (Even When...

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2025/11/04

Sometimes I’ll see a new bill passed or read a shocking headline—and my first reaction is the same as yours: “What the hell is happening to the world?”I’ll get grumpy. I’ll vent to my wife. I’ll think, “This is dumb.”But then I stop.Because I’ve learned that we, as human beings, are terrible at making sense of complicated systems.Even if something seems obviously harmful—or genuinely is harmful—it’s often impossible to know what the actual long-term effects will be. The systems we live in are too

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00:12:08

Why Most People Should Not Innovate — From an...

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2025/11/04

There is absolutely far too much hype around innovation.I say that as someone who teaches innovation for a living and then tried to build something myself.I have spent unbelievable amounts of time, effort, and money on the Reciprocity platform. And the great irony is that it was meant to help researchers in a field that talks nonstop about innovation. Yet when you look around, almost no one actually innovates. Not really.At the beginning, I fell for the hype. I read all the good stories. I believed

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00:09:45

The Big Misperceptions About What We Actually Do in...

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2025/11/02

There is a lot of mystery and ambiguity around the career of a researcher or scientist, and the general public often gets it wrong. Reporters and commenters talk about science in a certain way, but when you are in it, you know it does not work that way at all. Different domains are very different in how they operate in the scientific way, and there is a lot of nuance that people never see.What the public thinks we actually do is striking, and these misperceptions pass to policymakers and government

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00:17:49

Is Business Strategy Just Luck, Privilege, and...

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2025/11/01

Is Business Strategy Just Luck, Privilege, and Repetition?Over time, I have become increasingly cautious about what strategy truly means. I have spent much of my career studying it, teaching it, and trying to apply it. Yet the longer I engage with the topic, the more I have come to wonder whether we sometimes overstate what we can actually achieve.Respecting the TraditionIt is important to acknowledge that the study of strategy has given us remarkable insights. The field has taught generations of

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00:07:18

The Real Reason Science Feels Broken (And It’s Not...

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2025/10/30

There is a lot of discussion about the validity of science right now.Researchers talk endlessly about how to make results “more valid,” how to fix problems, and how to improve the system.But here is what I actually think.It is not about “bad apples.”It is almost never about that.The real issue is culture.And culture often comes down to one or two people inside a community who stress performance above all else. Those one or two people create tension. They make others feel lesser than. They make you

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00:07:47

I Was Told to Fit In—But Being Weird Saved My Career

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2025/10/30

Everyone says to optimize. To fit in. To specialize.But what if playing it safe is exactly what’s holding you back?In this raw and honest episode, David Maslach shares what most people won’t say out loud:Being weird might be the only reason your career survives.Drawing from experience as a tenured professor and researcher, he explains: • Why the best ideas start as misunderstood • How “goofy” projects become strategic breakthroughs • Why great firms like Google protect weirdos—and so should

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00:09:28

Assistant Professors: Live With As Much Joy As You...

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2025/10/28

Hey assistant professors that are just starting out. I just wanna remind you to live with as much joy as you possibly can. It is very easy to focus on what you need to get to and be very strategic in terms of who you are going to work with, but the key thing to always focus on is joy. Make sure that you are smiling every day. Make sure you have some laughter every single day. Look for those moments that make you feel warm inside. This is what I call the Spidey sense — the warmness you feel once you

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