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

I try to give you some encouragement for the day.

I talk about the challenges of calculating how much you made from an asset. It seems easy that it should be just how much you got back compared to how much you put in. However if you’re doing proper investment overtime, it’s almost impossible to calculate your earnings easily.

Talk about how a lot of business school education is wrong, and needs improvement. This is based on experience in building a platform.

I talk about the three most important moments of insight and research papers that I personally enjoy. The first moment of insight is when you discover the idea, the second is when your idea is confirmed in the data, and third is when you get to write up the entire paper.

It’s important to remember to grind through all of the rest to get to the moment we actually have some insight in the paper. It’s going to take a awful lot more work than simply just having a basic insight.

I talk about the story behind why I actually started the reciprocity project. I wanted to encourage you to keep going, despite all of the problems that you’re going to experience.

It will likely be very hard for you to get a good job even though that you’re doing everything right, that was my experience. But, you need to know that you’re a good person in the process.

If I could be that one person that encourages you to do good things and to keep your spirits up, despite what is going on around you, I think I would’ve done my job.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns and I will be glad to talk about it.

I talk about the effectiveness of teaching evaluations in terms of understanding performance, and looking at ways to improve. Generally teaching a valuations are not a very good indicator of performance, and they don’t give you very much information and how to actually improve.

talk about all it different features and adding to the reciprize the platform in the short term, and give a little hint of these features for long-term. The idea is to create a platform to make our life easier when we actually work. Also, it’s to provide a central place to get feedback on how well we’re actually doing.

Presenting scientific information is very much an art, and it is difficult to know how to actually present it. Presenting scientific information requires empathy and interpreting how a reader is going to see the scientific information.

I talk about productivity, and in particular academic productivity, where we think about efficiency of what we’re trying to do, and maximize the efficiency of performing those particular tasks. I suggest that short run productivity almost always drowns out long run productivity. And we need to focus on Longterm productivity to do well in life.

I talk about what it feels like to create some thing new, and your expectation of having everybody care about the thing that you built.

But the reality is nobody really cares about it. They only care about whether it’s going to solve their own individual problems. And if it doesn’t, it’s your job to figure out how to convince him that it does.