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

It’s a big assumption to believe that the world exist beyond you. I know that seems very unusual to say that, but there is a great deal of evidence that we can never actually confirm.

I contemplate why I became a professor and for me it’s because it’s a challenging career.

just be consistent every day regardless of what happens. There’s gonna be a lot of things thrown at you you simply have to ignore those things and get up and get going. There’s no other way to get around it.

I talk about the challenges of analyzing large data set with billions of characters in it. Often it’s just finding one or two characters that leads to problems within the dataset

One of the biggest lessons that I learned by building software is how self interested people actually are in this world they’re very much motivated by helping themselves out rather than helping out the greater community.

I ponder about alternative fuels and energy sources. I think about what we can possibly do to mitigate some of the damage that we’re doing to fossil fuels. I also said that the real problem is not that we’re consuming fossil fuels, it’s that we’re consuming some form of resource that is millions of years old that we can’t get back.

I want everybody to realize that kindness and empathy is important in this world. I know I’m not gonna be able to teach everybody back, because everybody is different. However, it does matter and people do pay attention to that.

I want you to marvel in the complexity of the things around you. Once you realize that the world is a heck of a lot more complicated and more difficult than you think that it would be, begin to realize that be very grateful for everything that is around you.

I talk about how to measure productivity in organizations and I propose some new insights in terms of productivity where we focus on what truly we want to get to, rather than things that are just easy to measure.

to build anything that’s great requires a tremendous amount of perseverance. As Jimmy Cliff says you can get it if you really try, but you must try try try try. I talk about how there is a castle in Atikokan Ontario and it’s the story of somebody building a castle from nothing.