I Posted 6,200 Videos and Still Feel Uncomfortable Every Time

R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness · Dec 21, 2025 · 7m

People keep telling me building my own platform is a mistake.

That I look foolish.

That I’m stigmatizing myself.

That this is “not what serious people do.”

And I hear it. It rings in my ears because it usually comes from the same people.

Here’s the thing though.

If there were a better way to build something like R3ciprocity, I would do it.

If there were a shortcut, a cleaner path, a way to pay my way around this, I would have taken it.

I’ve been in school longer than many people have been alive.

I study organizations, learning, innovation, and failure for a living.

You don’t need to be…