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

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.

I talk about the challenges of dealing with the real world data. I talk about how much of the data that is presented is quite sanitized, and we should start being more honest with data that is dirty.

I think about the effect of systems and various different groupings of cohorts. If you look at the general effect of this generally it often has a large impact on outcomes of the actors of interest.

I talk about why most people actually suck. And I discuss the underlying factors that are driving the phenomenon where 80% of any population are not going to perform like the top 20% of the population.

encourage you to create your own game of life so that you can be the hero in your own story. Figure out a project that you would love to work on and pursue that particular project. Remember to keep the project big enough so that you can do this over your lifetime.

I talk about how I can wish for somebody to come help me with the R3ciprocity project, so that I can do my job better. The problem is is nobody’s coming to the rescue, so I have to do it myself

being an innovator means that you have to be a non-conformist. You have to think about to what degree you’re not gonna conform and by how much. You also have to think about what aspects in your life you’re not gonna conform to the norms. Further, you never quite know whether you’re actually doing the right thing. The only thing that I can say is that you have to practice being an innovator in mana...

I discuss the problem of trying to figure out when is the appropriate time to take money out of your investments. It’s not clearer in terms of when you should do that.

I discuss how coming up with scientific findings is not necessarily about coming up with facts, but is much more about storytelling. You have to come up with a convincing story that other people will believe, and to get through gate keepers within science.

it’s important to remember that when you have young kids at home to give yourself some leeway. Stop being so difficult on yourself. These moments are the things that you can remember. I looked back and I remember the number of times and I actually snuggled with my kids compared to the number of times I was in my office. I’ll never remember the times have been my office.

I talk about whether we should be aspirational education and think about reforms to education that might improve being more aspirational. I use the example of take your kid to work day to think about existing systematic biases that might exist.

I talk about how you can be a good editor and reviewer for naked internal. It’s important to remember to be developmental and to think about how you can actually improve the paper that you’re reviewing or are in the editor for. Think of it as just being a helpful friend.

I talk about giving you encouragement to go do crazy things. Once you start looking at the odds of doing some thing, and you whittle away at those odds it becomes quite possible to do many outrageous things in your life. You simply have to just keep working at it.

I talk about my diet of eating fruits and vegetables before dinner. I find it very easy to manage this diet, and I don’t feel nearly as tired starving throughout the day. It also allows me to enjoy dinner with my family.

I talk about my journey building reciprocity platform, and what it it requires to actually get people to use the software. Building software from scratch requires an unbelievable amount of determination to get people to know about it and use it.

I talk about the importance of gossiping to establish social norms that are appropriate. I also discussed it’s important for bonding between people. Remember that gossiping is not necessarily a bad thing, and it often provide a great deal of benefit to establishing what is appropriate and what is not.

member to practice forgiveness, it’s more for you it’s been a days for them. It’s entirely selfish act to practice forgiveness. You’re practicing forgiveness so that you can move on and become a better person.

wanna remind everybody to keep up their battles. Remember that it’s OK to be you, and there’s gonna be a lot of people that are gonna suppress who you are, but you need to keep going with being a good person. It’s important for yourself to be you as much as you possibly are.

It’s important to teach your kids that manual labor is actually a fun experience. We’ve tried to teach them to do little chores around the house and pay them to do that. It’s a really fun experience, and kids get to understand pride in their work.

it’s important to remember that most people‘s lives are pretty ordinary and pretty boring. We do ordinary things because that’s what people do. Don’t get diluted with the fact that your life is somehow more boring than somebody else’s. It’s a myth to believe that everybody has a lot more of a spectacular life than you do.

I talk about the problem of specifying that there is one possible best way to view the world. Micro scholars might say that their approach to understanding how the world works is better than macro folks view of the world, and macro folks may say the same thing - their way is better. The fact is they both matter, and we really don’t have a good sense of how the world actually works either way.