Why Do Smart, Kind PhDs Struggle in Academia? And, Startups?

I love building something raw — and letting everyone see the mess.

That’s the point of the R3ciprocity Project.

There’s uncertainty.

There’s embarrassment.

There’s a lot of “I have no idea what I’m doing.”

But I keep going.

Because what I’ve realized — in startups and in academia — is that we have a strong culture of hiding.

Hiding failure.

Hiding doubt.

Hiding how much of this is just making it up as you go.

Here’s the wild part:

I’ve read thousands of articles. I’ve studied innovation for two decades.

I have an engineering degree.

I’m a professor.

And still, I don’t always know what I’m…

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