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

We Need To Embrace AI & GPT

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We need to vastly embrace artificial intelligence. The interesting part of artificial intelligence is it ability to replace things that nobody really ...

Focus on the small steps, not the big reward

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You don’t get to someplace by focusing on the BIG reward that you’re going to get. You focus on the little tiny steps that it takes to get there...

Towards empathetic scientific careers

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I can’t change the scientific profession. However, I can speak to the one person that was like me and struggling to get a job. The scientific endeav...

You never have enough resources, I still get comfortable with making do

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

All of us believe that we need resources to do some thing. We need more #resources to be more efficient at work, we need more resources to be better p...

You Are Who Are

27 Mar 2023

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You can only do what you can.

Employer expectations versus market expectations

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your #expectations for your performance are often not set by your employer. The expectations for your performance are often set by the market. But, w...

Why are people the way they are?

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have to think about the experiences that people get, and also the non-experiences that they are not exposed to. I believe that not getting access t...

Do your best, even if it’s not much

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just do little incremental things every day. Remember you’re good enough you don’t really need to improve anything.

Should Tiktok be banned? Who will benefit?

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I discuss major themes with the discussion of whether TikTok should be banned. This extremely complicated issue with many years of American culture to...

Assume that all technology is adopted slowly and work backwards from that.

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Assume that all technology is adopted very slowly, and think about ways how you can work within that reality were things will take a lot longer than y...

ChatGPT is a game changer for academic research

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chat GPT will change the face of how we actually interact with the world, and it will likely improve research dramatically over the next few years. I...

What if there is a better way in academia

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

the current academic research game is broken. There’s far too many people that fall through the cracks, and those people that become extraordinary s...

What do you do when nobody cares about that venture that you’re passionate about? Get to work.

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most new ventures in new ideas will result in no impact at all. You can sit there, and be dismayed that nobody cared about it, or you can get to work....

Getting up early and self-help

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your life does not change when you get up early or stay up late. It will naturally go to where there is a homeostasis in don’t gain extra hours by g...

Every venture is difficult, don’t expect anything different

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Every venture that you pursue is going to be difficult, and it does not happen overnight. I don’t believe any advertising or anybody that tells you ...

I Thank My Lucky Stars I Live Today

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I am deeply appreciative of the fact that I live today, and not a few generations ago. People don’t realize just how prosperous most of the world ac...

Scientific understanding is imperfect

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our current understanding of many fields is still imperfect, despite hundreds of years of study. Most phenomena remain poorly understood, such as mark...

People are not as nice as you believe

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

rather than assuming that everybody is nice, or everybody is not so nice, let’s assume that people are very much a mixed bag. We are a mixture of m...

Efficiency is good, but sometimes inefficiency is better

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In business and engineering, we aim for #efficiency by achieving the best outcome with limited resources. This involves focusing on one goal, such as ...

I Appreciate You

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#PhDs and #researchers pour countless hours into their research, but unfortunately, much of their work often goes unnoticed. It's not uncommon for a P...

Being able to delay is a powerful alternative

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Being able to delay, a purchase or action is an extremely powerful strategic choice. We often think about action, but perhaps a more powerful tool is ...

Outcomes that you observe today are the results of compounding that happened for a long time

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The outcomes we see today are not just the result of our efforts alone but rather a culmination of #decisions and choices made by others. The school...

The basic function of all work is to simply try when you don’t want to

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Working is never easy, no matter what particular task that you’re actually working on. From the outside world, it might seem fun and exciting, but f...

Our general understanding of business in economics?

04 Mar 2023

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Our general understanding of business and economics generally is quite in need of improvement. However, it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon as much...

Most will not get it, but the odd one will

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

most will not want to resonate with what you’re saying, but you have to find those backs will match with your style. It’s not about trying to con...

The only difference between you and somebody who’s made it, is that person actually made it

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You have to actually will it to happen. Put on your resources in it too create the world that you actually are thinking about. It requires unbelievab...

You are good enough

02 Mar 2023

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You are good enough just as you are. You don't have to conform to the outside world’s expectations or try to please others to feel worthy or #valida...

We need to change the academic peer review process

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We should improve the #academic peer review process to align it better with the incentives of participants. Currently, important roles such as revie...

Be OK with creating workarounds and research and development

01 Mar 2023

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Research and development always involves workarounds. Very little of what you think will happen will actually happen. You have to be OK with creatin...

But you can move up

28 Feb 2023

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but you can move it if you keep dedicating yourself, and investing in yourself and other people around you. You make feel like you don’t get anywhe...

I wish I knew what I was doing, but it don’t

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I wish I knew what I was doing, but it don’t. I wish I understand what I was doing, and then I can make sense of the world around me based on this ...

What Motivates Me To Keep Going With R3ciprocity?

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no other option. I just have to keep going until it actually gets done.

You don’t always have to make rational choices and be efficient

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For me, I often think about myself in terms of #efficiency, and as if I am a machine. This machine runs perfectly at 95% capacity at all times. Howev...

The Angle Perspective Of Business Strategy

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rather than focusing on product differentiation or competitive advantage, I believe that having gumption is the key to long-term success. Gumption can...

Do people inherently like to learn? No

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

do people inherently, like to learn, and pursue things around learning for the fun of it? I would argue that this is a rare situation, and most people...

Being entrepreneurial will mean that you stick out and you don’t conform

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Being an entrepreneur comes with a unique set of challenges. As a risk-taker, you may find yourself making decisions that differ from what is consider...

you have unique gifts that other people don’t

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the challenges that I face is that I often feel like a loser, and I have very little to give. However, I think it’s important to remind every...

Use emotions as indicators

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

emotions are our super powers. Not everybody feels emotions the same way that you do, but you can often use emotions as indicators of some thing is oc...

Just putting in the motions is better than when everybody else does

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

even on the days when you don’t feel like you’re doing OK, you just show up and put in that motion. Just showing up, is better than when everybody...

Everybody has something to say

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We need to start embracing our voices, and being proud of you in the small conversations that we have. There’s at least one person in this world tha...

Do you have more knowledge than you think?

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

we often feel like we don’t have a lot of knowledge when you’re searching or discovering new things. However, when you go and look back and what y...

Why I am a fan of diversity & inclusion

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When I was growing up, my dad was a Polish immigrant. By de facto, I eat, cabbage, meat, and boiled potatoes every day. If we had boiled potatoes the ...

I keep getting ghosted in PhD interviews

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you deal with getting ghosted in PhD interviews? I help you deal with getting ghosted, and prevent you from getting ghosted in the future but y...

Focus on the positive aspects of each generation

15 Feb 2023

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Let's focus on the positive traits of each generation. The younger generation values empathy and equality, while the older generation values hard work...

Why do you moments of grape thought disappear?

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

why do you moments of great time disappear? There’s many times in history where there is a renaissance of ideas, both within regions and within comp...

Don’t be greedy. Give openly to get more.

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Get in the practice of giving openly. What you don’t realize is that giving is often at the heart of growing influence, whether it is in the real wo...

What is more important? Strategy or behavior?

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do we actually need to have #strategies? I wonder if you simply just have to keep moving, and keep trying every day. It might be more worthwhile t...

How to process and think about disasters

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How to process and think about disasters that you see. The challenge is to know what you should do in response. I think any possible response in terms...

Whether you eat lobster or spaghetti dinners, it doesn’t matter in the end anyways

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you eat lobsters or spaghetti dinners has a little impact on your life. For me, mostly as long as I get to hang out with family and friends,...

Misunderstanding the tenure process

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many people misunderstand the tenure process and believe it is a job for life. It is far from the idea that it’s a job for life. The tenure process...

Thinking about failure, minimization, and modularity in purchasing decisions

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Purchasing decisions are a critical part of our daily lives, and we often base them on things like status and recognition. However, an alternative app...

Be careful generalizing from other peoples success

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The only thing that matters is doing incremental, slow, and boring work. You don’t get fast returns in anything, and you should be a little afraid o...

Incremental, Boring Work is where is that

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

much of human progress is about doing incremental, boring work repeatedly. If we think about all of the major human accomplishments, that we know of t...

Practice stoicism in your career

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

practice stoicism in your career by removing the outside world. You just trying to be yourself, no matter what the outside world thinks of you. Moreov...

Integrity and doing your best every day matters

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

integrity and doing your best every day matters. Just repeat to do your best. A lot of days does not feel like that but that’s the only option that ...

You just have to help one person

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Focus on #helping one person, even if it's just yourself. Don't aim for a big impact. This is just dumb. Who cares about you anyway? Your mom and pa...

Vertigo Burger is the best burger place in Tallahassee

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

our favorite burger joint in Tallahassee is vertical burger. It’s bougie, yet not overwhelming. It has the absolute best burgers and fries that are ...

Most of us get by with very little understanding and that’s OK

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us manage daily life with a limited understanding of the world around us. Even experts in a certain field only have a general knowledge in o...

We need to work on patience

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Always have more patience. be able to put in the work every day, even when distance, feel like you’re getting anywhere. The goal is not to make prog...

Train yourself to look for opportunities

03 Feb 2023

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train yourself to always look for opportunities and be positive with those opportunities. The only way that you see opportunities is if you believe yo...

I told you so

03 Feb 2023

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and become so used to filing the I told you so in my head has become a ritual. People will cramp on me for any number of reasons, and I get to file it...

Ideas are constructed and then turn into real physical things

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The physical world around us is simply just an artifact of a random idea that somebody tripped up. We define our world based on the physical things, b...

Allow people to flourish on their own terms

02 Feb 2023

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I think we need to start with the idea that everybody is different. How we grow as individuals, organizations, and societies is to recognize that ever...

Get comfortable learning uncomfortable things

01 Feb 2023

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Learn uncomfortable things. Often you grow as a person when you learn things that you think are irrelevant, or made you feel uncomfortable at the time...

Ambiguity in working effectively

01 Feb 2023

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deciding what you should work on, is often more challenging and deciding to actually work. There’s never quite a clear answer in what is the best po...

Financial management matters in the long run

31 Jan 2023

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I talk about the importance of personal financial management, and how this matters in the long run. It seems when you’re doing it in the short run t...

Is it the role or the person?

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

is it the role or the person that is leading to the behavior? Many of us are in different roles in society, and when we see certain behaviors, we ofte...

Keep taking those steps no matter if you feel that they’re below you

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Taking steps forward can be difficult, but it's important to remember that most of the steps you take will feel like they are below you. This is just ...

Planning to become empty-nesters

30 Jan 2023

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As a parent, your focus shifts from supporting and guiding your kids to adapting to their growing independence. This change can be challenging to navi...

Just keep busy

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just keep doing things and putting good into the world as much as you possibly can. Idle moments lead to mind wondering that is not good for you in an...

Realizing that it’s not your problem

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the micro scale, I have to realize that I can’t fix everybody’s problems. But at the macro scale, I can have a big impact because of the proble...

Documenting the emotions of academic research, and comparisons to the trucking industry

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I document the emotions that you might go through as a #academic researcher based on my own experience. You will have moments of high stress, such a...

How do you deal with the social isolation that is caused from research?

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you deal with the social, isolation that you feel from doing research? Been really struggling with this in the last while, and I don’t quite ...

You’re never too old to start

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's never too late to pursue your passions and goals. Age should not be a barrier to trying new things and enjoying life to the fullest. Imagine if...

The world is made up, so why not start making it up yourself

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We make up the world around us. There are structures in place, but those structures have largely been made up by other people. Why not create the stru...

How do I avoid scams by thinking about long run averages

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An important aspect of making wise financial choices is thanking about long run averages. If something is relatively proven, you should think about th...

Technology will change and futures will be different

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our future is likely going to be different than how we understand it today. Rather than being pessimistic about the future, I think we need to manage ...

Is it going to break? A simple question when you purchase products.

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it going to break? A simple question you should use when you purchase products. Ask yourself, “is it going to break, and if so, what’s going t...

Think of percentages of a population, not the group

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rather than focusing on large groups, link, boomers, or millennials, focus on the percentage of people that will actually engage with what you’re do...

Build an audience to have options

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

after years of the reciprocity project, I’ve come to conclude that you need to build an audience before you do much of anything. It doesn’t matter...

Get back up again every day

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Get back up again every day. It’s not whether you actually get the outcomes, it’s whether you are actually pursued and weather in you got back up ...

Managing boredom in a research career

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I talk about the importance of managing boredom in a research career to prevent you from feeling negative emotions. Making sure that you’re always ...

Researchers tend to be pessimistic

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

researchers tend to be pessimistic, but it’s important to keep optimistic about the world. If you look at longrun trends, you often see positive imp...

just pursue anything with all your heart

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

life. If you don’t do something you’re not going to make as much money, or you’re not going to succeed in the long run. You hear: Follow your #...

Multi factor, authentication does not solve the problem in the long run

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Having additional frustrations for humans when they interact with computers, does not solve the long-term problem, and just makes it more frustrating ...

Consistency of every day life is a gift

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Having some amount of #consistency, regularity, or #everydayness is an important part of everyone’s life. When you’re younger and you’re just g...

Work within the ebbs and flows of life

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your life is not meant to be maximized. It is far too many objectives in life to pick the appropriate objective. We talk about him later, fitness, ro...

How do you deal with situations where others do not have a perspective of understanding

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

how do you deal with situations where others do not have a perspective of understanding? You let them have their say, and then you develop systems, an...

Come from her perspective of understanding

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A key to remember with almost every negotiation that you have in your life is to come from your perspective of understanding. What does what do you i...

Invest in index funds as an insurance against yourself

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The way I view index funds as a insurance against me not being able to work at some point. If you view investing as insurance against your own income ...

social isolation in Productivity in Academia

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A direct result of a focus on productivity in #Academia leads to social isolation. The only way that we can improve productivity per person is by #iso...

What is it like to live with ADHD as an adult?

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Living with #ADHD is a #professor is challenging. You’re always forgetting things, you can’t seem to be organized, and all aspects of your life ar...

Keep working at it every day, despite what others say

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

many people don’t realize that working doesn’t always have to be fun. When they experience adversity, they lash out in different ways because of t...

If unconditional love is key, how do you create it?

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

creating a environment that is supportive and has psychological safety is extremely difficult. However, we know that it’s often the way for people t...

Naturally endowed assets are a disadvantage

06 Jan 2023

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Naturally endowed assets, like beauty, the ability to communicate easily, and intelligence, are disadvantages. We tend to think of them as distinct ...

Should you always be fulfilled?

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I question the idea about whether you should always be fulfilled in life. When I was younger, I used to think that my job or my career will be my sust...

You’re simply average.

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your best #estimate of how well you should perform in the future should be just a simple average. Most often your estimate will be based on you doin...

Waste resources to innovate

04 Jan 2023

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The simplest way to #innovate is to waste resources. Find a arbitrary amount of resources that you can give away and give away freely at things that...

Long run progress may feel miserable in the short term

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Making progress doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be happy every single day. Often, longer and progress feels miserable in the short term. longe...

Hard Work Leads To Competitive Advantage

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After studying #strategy for many years, I have come to determine that strategy actually boils down to some really simple things. most of us want to ...