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.
R3ciprocity: Research Life, Innovation, Business Growth, & Strive Towards Being Happy
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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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June 11, 2026
Why Smart, Kind People Get Treated Poorly
<p>You have probably met a lot of people in your life that will treat you poorly.</p><p><br></p><p>This week, or even today, you may experience somebody who is short with you, exasperated when you are around, gives you the eye rolls, gets angry, or suddenly disappears and ghosts you.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are like me, you internalize this immediately.</p><p>You think: Is it me? Am I at fault?</p><p><br></p><p>For a long time, I did this with almost every negative interaction. I still do. I immediately assume there is some flaw in me. I replay what I said. I think I did something wrong.</p><p><br></p><p>What I have realized over many years is that, very often, it is not my fault.</p><p>It is somebody else struggling with something deep inside that they cannot or will not process. Their mind is already made up. They did not come into the day wanting to respond to you in a positive way.</p><p><br></p><p>Psychologists call this kind of inner clash cognitive dissonance. When people feel that ambiguity or tension, they rarely respond with patience and inquiry. Nine times out of ten, they get angry or run away.</p><p><br></p><p>Some people fight. Some people flee.</p><p>Some people ghost you.</p><p>Some people give you that emotional hit that makes you feel inferior.</p><p><br></p><p>And because our bodies respond much more to negative interactions than positive ones, that one angry moment can erase an entire day of beautiful moments. You will carry that one interaction around and ask: What did I do wrong?</p><p><br></p><p>Most of the time, you did nothing wrong.</p><p>You cannot fix them. You cannot be kind enough or generous enough to change a mind that does not want to change.</p><p><br></p><p>So here is what I want you to internalize:</p><p> • Your daily interactions are often not about you.</p><p> • You cannot fix everybody.</p><p> • You can walk away knowing you are a good person.</p><p> • You can keep being kind without believing you are the problem.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are the one who is always angry and aggressive, I hope you stop and reflect and think about how you can change.</p><p><br></p><p>But I also know that most people who need that message will say it is everybody else.</p><p><br></p><p>For you, the person who internalizes everything and thinks it is always your fault:</p><p><br></p><p>It is not you.</p><p>Keep going.</p><p>Take care and have a wonderful day.</p>
June 9, 2026
My Immigrant Dad Never Said ‘I Love You.’ He Just Worked.
<p>(The Real Reason I Still Keep Going Even When It Feels Pointless)</p><p><br /></p><p>Real work. The kind that doesn’t show up on social media. The kind that doesn’t get recognized, that feels invisible—until it doesn’t.</p><p><br /></p><p>I come from a family of immigrants. My dad’s family moved from Poland in the 1930s and ended up in the far north of Canada. They were homesteaders—settling into this cold, isolated place that couldn’t have been more different from what they left behind.</p><p><br /></p><p>They didn’t speak the language. They didn’t have money. But they knew how to work. And they knew that if they didn’t figure it out, no one else would do it for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad wasn’t someone who gave advice. He wasn’t the kind of guy to sit you down and say, “Here’s what matters.” He just did it. </p><p><br /></p><p>He just worked.</p><p><br /></p><p>He did shift work—two days on, two days off, three days on, three days off—for decades. </p><p><br /></p><p>And even on his days off, he’d wake up, eat something quick, and go right back outside to work on something. He was always fixing things. Always building something. Always moving.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that was our normal. Nobody in our house paid someone to fix anything. If the car broke down, he’d fix it in the garage. If the dishwasher broke, he’d take it apart. If something needed to be built, we built it. That’s just what you did.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything in our house was DIY. Because we didn’t have another option.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were six kids. We didn’t have much. But we knew how to work and how to save. That’s what we were taught.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here’s where it gets complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because now—after going through school, getting a PhD, becoming a professor, building this R3ciprocity Project—I see the world so differently. I’m in a totally different space than my parents were. And yet…</p><p><br /></p><p>That mindset is still with me. That constant drive to work. To build. To keep going even when it feels pointless.</p><p><br /></p><p>Day after day. When no one’s watching. When the results aren’t coming in. When you’re not sure it’s ever going to pay off.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m building something that I can’t fully explain. And every single day I have to remind myself: just show up. Just keep doing the work.</p><p><br /></p><p>You don’t need clarity to keep going. You just need courage.</p><p><br /></p><p>You just need to get up and try again tomorrow.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because here’s what I’ve learned watching my parents, and especially my dad: faith isn’t about having all the answers. Faith is what you do when you don’t have the answers. When the future is completely unclear and you do the work anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>There’s a kind of quiet resilience in people who just keep going—who don’t wait for permission, or praise, or proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still remember how quiet he was. How much he worked. How much he provided for us without ever needing to be seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now I get it. Now that I’m a dad, and I’m building something that feels impossible most days—I get it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You don’t need to be perfect. You don’t need to be efficient. You just need to show up.</p>
June 6, 2026
Entrepreneurship in Academia Is a Lonely Game
<p>Here’s what nobody tells you.</p><p><br></p><p>Building something truly different</p><p>is like flying a plane</p><p>while you are building it.</p><p><br></p><p>When I first heard that in my PhD program,</p><p>I did not fully get it.</p><p><br></p><p>Now I do.</p><p><br></p><p>Nobody really knows what to do.</p><p><br></p><p>Nobody really knows the right course of action.</p><p><br></p><p>There is no single correct answer.</p><p><br></p><p>There are many plausible worlds.</p><p>Many possible truths.</p><p>And you have to pick one.</p><p><br></p><p>Entrepreneurship research has said this for nearly 100 years.</p><p><br></p><p>Entrepreneurs bear uncertainty.</p><p><br></p><p>That is the job.</p><p><br></p><p>And uncertainty feels awful.</p><p><br></p><p>You will be embarrassed.</p><p><br></p><p>You will think what you built is glorious.</p><p>Others will roll their eyes.</p><p><br></p><p>You will spend time.</p><p>You will spend money.</p><p>You will not have enough of either.</p><p><br></p><p>People will judge from the sidelines.</p><p><br></p><p>They will offer suggestions.</p><p>They will not offer help.</p><p><br></p><p>From the outside, it looks simple.</p><p><br></p><p>From the inside, it feels torturous.</p><p><br></p><p>Good science looks effortless</p><p>when you are not the one doing it.</p><p><br></p><p>When you are in it, it is art.</p><p><br></p><p>And art is painful.</p><p><br></p><p>You will want to quit.</p><p><br></p><p>You will think you are wrong.</p><p><br></p><p>You will think everyone else must know something you do not.</p><p><br></p><p>They do not.</p><p><br></p><p>Most people never try.</p><p><br></p><p>Of those who try, almost all quit.</p><p><br></p><p>Because they thought there would be answers.</p><p><br></p><p>There are never answers.</p><p><br></p><p>There is just standing back up</p><p>and doing it again.</p><p><br></p><p>It is lonely.</p><p><br></p><p>It is embarrassing.</p><p><br></p><p>It is uncertain.</p><p><br></p><p>And if you are building something new inside academia,</p><p>this is the life you signed up for.</p><p><br></p><p>That is my life with the R3ciprocity project.</p><p><br></p><p>And I am still here.</p>
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