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

We need to redefine academia and what it means to be an academic.

I can either sit there and dwell or I can roll with the punches and love who I am, and try to live on the world even more. The world is often not going to be forgiving, but you can be forgiving of yourself.

Finding product market fit is a challenge and it never is going to be intuitive at the gecko. Understanding what the market wants and what you can actually build is never quite clear.

Spam versus getting the word out. How do you actually deal with getting your word out for your entrepreneurial endeavor? You just get up and practice. Know that you are kind of spamming people, but you keep trying and don’t worry about if there’s any negative consequences that are going to happen. It’s likely most people are not gonna care as much as you think that they will in your head.

it’s important to remember not to push away the things that are most important in your life. Graduate school and doing research teaches you to push away it’s not as important as you think it is, and some of the more important things are more important than you think they are.

You just have to last at doing any entrepreneurial are innovative thing. It’s not what you imagine it to be.

Learning how to not feel like a failure, is an important characteristic, that all researchers in innovators have to think about. An important part of dealing with the research game is knowing that you’re not a failure, and that it is simply just part of the process. Understanding of the outcomes that you get are different for every person is a vital clue to the process. Knowing how to say, just screw it or f it in a bucket is an important piece of the puzzle.

The fundamental flaw in science and in research life is believing that you need to have one single answer. It’s believing that life has a true value that we’re trying to find.

In my experience, almost everything has a multiplicity of values that are all equally valid. The more that we get to this view of validating all perspectives, the more likely that we’re going to make progress in the research community.

I think about how the playing field is not a level in science or an academic. We can change this, but it’s going to require a considerable amount of work and technology development to have a leveler Plainfield in scientific research.

understanding that nice guys finish first is one of the most important lessons that you’ll ever learn in life. When you feel comfortable around other people and there’s no desire to impress or censor yourself, you know that you’re in presence of good people.

Who do you want to be around people where you’re afraid that they’re going to take advantage of you, or people that make you feel you?

Who do you think will get the most opportunities in this world? Or are regardless if somebody takes advantage of you and you don’t end up first, at least you can have the feeling that you were nice and a decent person.