Why do so many PhDs feel guilty about not keeping on top of the literature?

R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness · Jul 11, 2026 · 10m

Why do so many PhDs and senior professors feel guilty… about not keeping on top of the literature?

I’ve struggled with this for 20 years.

And I don’t think it’s because we’re not trying.

It’s because the way we do this today… just doesn’t work.

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One of the challenges that we have is keeping on top of the literature in our respective areas.

There’s too much.

A lot of it doesn’t feel right.

Some of it is just not that relevant.

And, yes, some of it is junk science.

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So what do we do?

We fall behind.

And we carry that around.

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What we’re trying to do with the R3ciprocity platform is fix that…