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David Truss

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A husband, a parent… An educator, a student… A thinker, a dreamer… An agent of change. I blog daily here: http://daily-ink.davidtruss.com

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Facing a mismatch I had a bit of an epiphany yesterday morning. It wasn’t great. I had a vision for something I had planned to do in the future and I was suddenly faced with the reality that it wasn’t going to live up

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20.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Time under tension One of the principles of exercising to develop muscle is time under tension. How much time are you working the muscle for? Learning is similar. For how long are we challenging ourselves before giv

Time under tension
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19.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pay to use Is it just me or is everyone feeling the drain of subscription fees? My wife bought a scale that also gives biometrics. The app is free, but you get ‘so much more’ with the subscription. Looking into

Pay to use
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18.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Almost free I remember being a young kid when a door-to-door salesman came to our house and sold my dad a Junior Encyclopedia set. I was amazed at all the information in there. I could just think of any topic and

Almost free
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17.11.2025 14:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lie with confidence Be controversial but wrong, say it with confidence, and watch the likes and re-shares come your way. I had an Instagram video shared with me. The ‘influencer’ who posted it has over 600,000 followers

Lie with confidence
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16.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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YouTube removed your content I got an email from YouTube (links removed): “What we found We think your content violated our violent or graphic content policy. Violent or graphic content that’s intended to shock or disgu

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16.11.2025 00:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A community of learners Here are 4 quotes from student self reflections. I saved the most creative on for last. I absolutely love how the kid created a metaphor, but understood that it wasn’t a perfect analogy, so he updated

A community of learners
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14.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Do not disturb For almost a year now I’ve left my phone on ‘Do Not Disturb’ all day. I only ever change it when I’m expecting a call. Other than that it stays muted. I have gone into my settings and set up ‘Allow No

Do not disturb
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13.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Doing hard things My workouts have stagnated a bit recently. I’m doing the minimum, but the good news is that I’m still showing up. Yesterday I did my first interval training in about 3 or 4 weeks. I want to do it week

Doing hard things
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12.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The ego and the way Intelligence is blind to ignorance. While it is true that the smarter you get, the more likely you are to realize how little you know; It is also true that the smarter you get, the less likely you are

The ego and the way
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11.11.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fall appreciation Fall in Vancouver is usually defined by rain. Pouring, ever present rain with a gloomy sky, often unable to see where exactly the sun is. You can sometimes go days without seeing the sun for more than

Fall appreciation
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10.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fuelling my disillusionment A few months ago I wrote the following in response to a LinkedIn post, and then saved it in my drafts. The problem is, I didn’t copy the link to the original post properly. Furthermore, if I recall, i

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10.11.2025 00:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Follow our journey Dave Sands and I are finally sharing our goal scheduled for next August. We are going to ‘Everest the Crunch’. What does that mean? Mount Everest is 8,849 meters high. The path we take when we walk up

Follow our journey
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09.11.2025 00:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The struggle is real Today I wanted to quit. I’ve procrastinated for over an hour and a half, and my morning routine will be incomplete. Doubt kept circulating in my head. I feel like I have absolutely nothing to say. It’

The struggle is real
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07.11.2025 15:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Emotionally invested “When students are emotionally invested in the learning process, commitment and performance will typically go up. Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist who studies learning and creativity, said, “If we

Emotionally invested
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06.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Technical difficulties I’m surprised that the Jetpack app that I use to publish about 95% of my Daily-Ink posts is so buggy. I often hit ‘Publish’ then get an error. When that happens the post usually publishes anyway, but

Technical difficulties
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05.11.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An AI advertisement I scrolled past this add a few times before paying any attention to it. But then it gave off an uncanny valley feeling that made me look a little closer. I think it was the very staged first question

An AI advertisement
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04.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Do not amplify if you can not verify This is a simple, but potent message. Before hitting the 'Like' or 'Share' button, before telling someone about the interesting fact you heard online, verify it in some way. Is it true? Do some Groun

Do not amplify if you can not verify
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03.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ground Truthing The term 'ground truthing' was shared with me last night by a friend, Neil. I had never heard the term before so did a quick MS365 Copilot request to learn more. Ground truthing is the process of col

Ground Truthing
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02.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rent free There are a couple people who I don’t really like, who also happen to live rent free in my brain. It really bugs me that these two people can surface in my mind like an itchy scab. I want to forget th

Rent free
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01.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ripple in time I was at a dinner with some online school principals from other districts last night and one of them mentioned the influence that I had back in the early days of Twitter. It was interesting to hear hi

Ripple in time
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31.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A quick road trip Later today I head to Kamloops for an all-day meeting tomorrow. The principals of Provincial Online Schools are meeting. We connect with the Ministry of Education in the morning, and spend the rest of

A quick road trip
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30.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Margins over manpower Amazon just laid off over 14,000 people. According to Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology at Amazon, who wrote that they are ‘Staying nimble and continuing to stren

Margins over manpower
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29.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Knowledge Keepers For generations we have looked to our elders as the knowledge keepers. Now knowledge is stored in bits and bytes, and shared in video format. A boy doesn't look to dad or granddad to learn how to shav

Knowledge Keepers
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28.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Show me don’t tell me I can’t imagine that resumes and cover letters are going to look the same in the next few years. Basically, with everyone using AI to enhance or even completely write these documents, they aren’t goin

Show me don’t tell me
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27.10.2025 01:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pruning - Strategic Subtraction One of my favourite quotes comes from Derek Sivers: “If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.” When looking at Dr Simon Breakspear’s ‘The Pruning Pri

Pruning – Strategic Subtraction
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25.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Generic platitudes One of the odd little things about running two schools in my district is that often, when someone has gotten hold of our school mailing list to send out emails, I get two of them… one for each school.

Generic platitudes
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24.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Infiltration Do you want an AI to be able to read and reply to your email? Wouldn’t that be great? Yes, but I’m not doing it! My personal email is a gateway to everything I do on the web, and that includes my d

AI Infiltration
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23.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Make the average better There is a saying that I love, which goes like this: ‘You are the average of the people you spend the most time with.’ I’ve seen it over and over again at school. Take a kid who’s floundering,

Make the average better
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22.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sick season One of my secretaries was sick all last week. Last night I had two messages from teachers telling me they’ll be away today. One of them doesn’t even work in my building on Mondays so it’s not like the

Sick season
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21.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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